Rogers v. Courier Post Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Sisler v. Gannett Co., Inc. (1986), Coleman v. Newark Morning Ledger Co. (1959)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 31 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 Dorr v. United States · Burt v. Advertiser Newspaper Co. · Secundino Mendezona y Mendezona v. United States · Lancour v. Herald & Globe Ass'n · King v. Patterson
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A full, fair and accurate report of a judicial proceeding is qualifiedly privileged, although the report contains matters that would otherwise be defamatory and actionable, and no action will lie therefor except on proof of malice in making it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““While matters of public interest and concern, such as the public acts of a public man, if truly stated, are legitimate subjects of criticism, and every one has the right to comment thereon so long as he does so fairly and without malice, nevertheless, the rule is well settled in this state, and in the great majority of jurisdictions elsewhere, that the defense' of fair' comment and criticism must be founded on true facts. What is thus privileged, if we may use that term, is the comment and criticism, and not the statement of alleged facts on which they are based, and if one states facts otherwise libelous, he will not be privileged under the plea of fair comment if they are not true. Such a plea does not extend to the making of false statements, and it is no defense that they •were mistakenly or honestly made, although such matters may be considered in mitigation of damages. News papers have no greater rights or privileges in this respect than ordinary citizens. “Generally speaking, comment or criticism must be founded on truth. While ordinarily it does not consist of the .assertion of facts, an allegation of fact may be justified by its being an inference from other facts truly stated, as discussed supra § 131. ;The right to comment or criticise does not extend to, or justify, allegations of fact of a defamatory character. If the publication is not a comment or' criticism, but a statement of fact, the rules to be applied to the nature of recovery are those applicable to any”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“only to statements issued by the heads of the respective departments, and not by subordinates therein,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.