Koehler v. Dubose’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2014
22 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 Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Shannon · Ashcroft v. . Hammond · Guisti v. Galveston Tribune · Guisti v. Galveston Tribune · McLaughlin v. Cowley
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A libel is a defamation expressed in printing or writing, or by signs and pictures, or drawings, tending to blacken the memory of the dead, or tending to injure the reputation of one who is alive, and thereby expose him to public hatred, contempt or ridicule, or financial injury, or to impeach the honesty, integrity, or virtue, or reputation of any one, or to publish the natural defects of any one and thereby expose such person to public hatred, ridicule, or financial injury.” Rev. Stats, art. 5595; Koehler v. Dubose, 200 S. W. 238 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Nothing in this act shall be construed to amend or repeal any penal law on the subject of libel, nor to take away any existing defense to a civil action for libel, nor shall this act affect any suits now pending, or that may hereafter be brought upon a cause of action arising prior to the taking effect of this act.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A reasonable and fair comment or criticism of the official acts of public officials and of other matters of public concern published for general information.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.