Fleckenstein v. Friedman’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Goodrich v. Waterbury Republican-American, Inc. (1982), Johnson Publishing Co. v. Davis (1960)
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 69 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 McClelland v. Climax Hosiery Mills · Cafferty v. . Southern Tier Publishing Co. · Bush v. . Prosser · 3 E.H. Smith 472 - Lanpher v. . Clark · Gressman v. . Morning Journal Assn.
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A workable test is whether the libel as published would have a different effect on the mind of the reader from that which the pleaded truth would have produced.”
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.