Hendrix v. Mobile Register’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1967
2 federal appellate · 9 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 Sillars v. Collier · Wofford v. Meeks · Advertiser Co. v. Jones · Iron Age Publishing Co. v. Crudup
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While a statement, in order to be defamatory of one in respect to public office need not import a charge of crime, yet it must go so far as to impute to him some incapacity or lack of due qualification to fill the position, or some positive past misconduct which will injuriously affect him in it, or the holding of principles which are hostile to the maintenance of government. Sillars v. Collier, 151 Mass. 50 , 23 N.E. 723 , 6 L.R.A. 680 .”
1 later decision 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.