Clyde C. Crosby v. Time, Incorporated, a New York Corporation’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions

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

1. ““The so-called innocent construction rule, that is, if language is capable of innocent construction it should be read and declared non-libelous, is firmly established in Illinois. La Grange Press v. Citizen Pub. Co., 252 Ill.App. 482 , 485; Dilling v. Illinois Publishing and Printing Co., 340 Ill.App. 303 , 306, 91 N.E.2d 635 ; Parmelee v. Hearst Pub. Co., Inc., 341 Ill.App. 339 , 343, 93 N.E.2d 512 ; Epton v. Vail, 2 Ill.App.2d 287 , 119 N.E.2d 410 . In the latter case, the Court in dismissing a complaint stated (opinion not published) : “ ‘The language must receive an innocent construction when susceptible of such interpretation and cannot by innuendo be extended beyond a reasonable construction. [Citing cases.]’ ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Porcella v. Time, Inc. · Amadore Porcella, a Citizen of the Republic of Italy v. Time, Inc., a New York Corporation