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← 208 Ala. 623 - Kenney v. Gurley

Kenney v. Gurley’s Empirical Analysis

1923

Citation profile

51
cited by 51 later decisions
8
states following
May 2013
most recently cited

48 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Johnson Publishing Co. v. Davis (1960), Berry v. City of New York Ins. Co. (1923)

48 state decisions

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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 Age-Herald Pub. Co. v. Huddleston · Ferdon v. Dickens · Phillips v. Bradshaw · Smith Bros. v. Agee & Co. · Lawson v. Hicks

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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “". . . may be shown by evidence of previous ill will, hostility, threats, rivalry, other actions, former libels or slanders, and the like, emanating from the defendant, or by the violence of the defendant's language, the mode and extent of publication, and the like."”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “`[P]roof that [the] defendant knew [the statement] was untrue when he made it would be evidence of malice. '”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “at the place of posting or at the place of receipt by the addressee”
    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.