Ostrowe v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez (2021), Charles Parker Co. v. Silver City Crystal Co. (1955)
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 45 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 Berry v. City of New York Ins. Co. · Ferdon v. Dickens · Gambrill v. Schooley · Kennedy v. Butler, 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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“publication is a term of art. . . . A defamatory writing is not published if it is read by no one but the one defamed. Published it is, however, as soon as read by any one else.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The soundness of a conclusion may not infrequently be tested by its consequences.”
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.