Barron v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 1964
1 federal appellate · 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 Steele v. Southwick · Van Ness v. Hamilton
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon the whole it may be collected that any writings, pictures or signs, which derogate from' the character of an individual, by imputing to him either bad actions or vicious principles, or which diminish his respectability and abridge his comforts, by exposing him to disgrace or ridicule, are actionable, without proof of special damage; in short, that an action lies for any false, malicious, and personal imputation, effected by such means, and tending to alter the party’s situation in society for the worse.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sherin v. Eastwood
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.