261 Cal. App. 2d 789 - Washburn v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2008
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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 52 Cal. 2d 536 - MacLeod v. Tribune Publishing Co. · 59 Cal. 2d 602 - Daniels v. Sanitarium Assn., Inc. · 132 Cal. App. 2d 36 - Farr v. Bramblett · Harris v. Curtis Publishing Co. · Loew's, Inc. v. Cole
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he test of libel is not quantitative; a single sentence may be the basis for an action in libel even though buried in a much longer text ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“construe the alleged libelous matter in a sense that is natural and obvious, and in which the persons to whom it is communicated would be likely to understand it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]hile a drop of poison may be lethal, weaker poisons are sometimes diluted to the point of impotency.”
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.