Brewer v. Hearst Pub. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
185 F.2d 846 · 1950
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1987 · most notably Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. (1974), 24 Ill. 2d 437 - John v. Tribune Company (1962)
25 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 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 Potts v. Dies · Life Printing & Publishing Co. v. Field · 330 Ill. App. 295 - Latimer v. Chicago Daily News, Inc. · Dowie v. Priddle
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The publications in the instant case are fair comment and criticism on a matter of public interest and as such are not actionable. The essential elements of fair comment in order to be deemed not actionable are: (1) that the publication is an opinion; (2) that it relates not to an individual but to his acts; (3) that it is fair, namely that the reader can see the factual basis for the comment and draw his own conclusion; and (4) that the publication relates to a matter of public interest.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * q>he meaning of the words alleged to be libelous cannot, by innuendo, be extended beyond a reasonable construction. Life Printing and Publishing Co. v. Field, [1944] 324 Ill.App. 254 -262, 58 N.E.2d 307 . Innuendos are not available to impute libel to an article which in itself is otherwise innocent of any libelous meaning. Words alleged to be libelous will receive an innocent construction if they are reasonably susceptible of it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The language must receive an innocent construction when susceptible of such interpretation and cannot by innuendo be extended beyond a reasonable construction. [Citing cases.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.