Webb v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2011
18 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 Klinck v. . Colby · Ferdon v. Dickens · O'Neal v. McKinna · Upton v. Hume · Pool v. Devers
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When words are slanderous in themselves, the right to damages follows as a consequence from speaking in a slanderous way, because it is the incalculable tendency of slander to injure the person slandered, in his reputation, profession, trade, or business. “It would frequently be difficult to prove any pecuniary injury from slander, and always impossible to establish its full extent * * *. Therefore, when words are actionable in themselves, the law implies damages.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.