Sweeney & Co. v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2019
6 federal appellate · 11 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 Sparks v. McCreary · Fite v. Oklahoma Publishing Co. · Kee v. Armstrong, Byrd & Co. · McClintock v. McClure · Shields v. Booles
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may be defamatory by reason of their imputation, or by reason of certain extrinsic facts, connoting they were meant to be, and were, understood by the general public, or those reading them, to have such meaning, and that on receiving them were so construed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“require evidence of pecuniary loss arising from the use thereof, other than their use to sustain a recovery”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“stripped of all innuendo, colloquium, and explanatory circumstances....”
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.