Young v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
18 F.2d 807 · 1927
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 1988 · most notably Brown v. Collins (1968), United States v. Hurt (1976)
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Nalle v. Oyster · White v. Nicholls · Andrews v. . Gardiner · Kemper v. Fort · Maulsby v. Reifsnider
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule is that defamatory matter appearing in a pleading filed according to law in a court having jurisdiction, if relevant and pertinent to the issue in the case, is privileged, even if it reflects upon the character of one who is not a party to the suit. * * * This conclusion does not violate the rulings of the Supreme Court in White v. Nicholls, 3 How. 266 , 11 L.Ed. 591 * * * ” (Emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Williams
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.