Phillips v. Murchison’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 1996
6 federal appellate ·
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 J. I. Case Co. v. Borak · Babcock v. Jackson · Hartmann v. Time, Inc. · Campbell v. New York Evening Post, Inc. · Briarcliff Lodge Hotel, Inc. v. Citizen-Sentinel Publishers, Inc.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A civil action cannot be maintained against any person, firm or corporation, for the publication of a fair and true report of any judicial proceeding, * * * or for any heading of the report which is a fair and true headnote of the statement published. * * * ””
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.