Malone v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently January 1980
3 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 Richards v. State · Gambrill v. Schooley · Baker v. State · Schuster v. State · Sprague v. State
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 348.41. Criminal slander. . . . (2) Every person who, in the presence and hearing of another, other than the person slandered, . . . shall maliciously speak of or concerning any person, any false or defamatory words or language which shall injure or impair the reputation of such person ... or which shall expose him to hatred, contempt, or ridicule shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. . . . Every slander herein mentioned shall he deemed malicious if no justification therefor he shown, and shall he justified when the language charged as slanderous, false, or defamatory was true and was spoken with good motives and for justifiable ends.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mueller
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.