Ashcroft v. . Hammond’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently May 1988 · most notably Shapiro v. Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York (1959), Reynolds v. Pegler (1955)
9 federal appellate · 55 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedAshcroft v. Hammond
Relationships
Relies on Hemmens v. . Nelson · Hamilton v. . Eno · Klinck v. . Colby · Lewis and Herrick v. . Chapman · John W. Lovell Co. v. Houghton
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A written communication between private persons concerning their own affairs is prima facie privileged. And though all that is said is under mistake, yet the words are not for that reason alone actionable. Where both the party making and the party receiving the communication have an interest in it, it has never been doubted that it was privileged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Richardson v. Cooke““That presumptively the defendant’s telegram was privileged is entirely -clear, and the question was one for determination by the court, as the circumstances were not in dispute. Lovell v. Houghton, 116 N. Y. 520 [ 22 N. E. 1066 , 6 L. R. A. 363].””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Richardson v. Cooke““When a communication is fairly made by a person in the discharge of some private or public duty, legal or moral, or in the conduct of his own affairs, in matters where his interest is concerned.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Richardson v. Cooke
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.