Hart v. E. P. Dutton & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2017
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Near v. State of Minnesota Olson · Miller v. . Schloss · Schmidt v. Merchants Despatch Transportation Co. · Roberson v. . Rochester Folding Box Co. · Brick v. Cohn-Hall-Marx Co.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Libel has been [a] field of much litigation in both England and this country. ... [I]t is significant that in none of these cases has an action such as is brought by the plaintiff in this case been instituted. The plaintiff recognizes this fact and states: “We are undertaking to prove additional facts never before pleaded in a libel suit, namely, that the defendant had and received money by virtue of his libellous publication.” The absence of attempts to bring an action similar to the instant one is evidence of the recognition by the legal profession and the courts that such an action would not lie under the common law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ventura v. Kyle
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.