Webster v. Nunn’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 1949
5 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 Cranfill v. Hayden · Guisti v. Galveston Tribune · King v. Brown · Guisti v. Galveston Tribune · 52 Tex. Civ. App. 22 - San Antonio Light Publishing Co. v. Lewy
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Before the published matter under consideration can be classed as qualifiedly privileged it must be found that the facts stated in the body- of the article are true.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nunn v. Webster
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.