Colbert v. Journal Publishing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably New York Times Company v. Sullivan (1962), Stewart v. Potter (1940)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 51 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 Spies v. People · Smart v. Blanchard · Graff v. People · Nelson v. Borchenius · Enos v. . Enos
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any false and malicious ■writing published of another is libelous per se, when its tendency is to render him contemptible or ridiculous in public estimation, or expose him to public hatred or contempt, or hinder virtuous men from associating with him.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ward v. Ares · Wood v. Hannett
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.