Hoover v. Jordan’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2002
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 Finley v. Steele · Denver Public Warehouse Co. v. Holloway · Wieman v. Mabee · Stewart v. Hall
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question of privilege is for the court, and of malice, for the jury. If the plaintiff in any case where it has been determined that the communication was privileged, either absolute or qualified, has not produced any evidence of malice, the court should direct a verdict for the defendant, even though it is conclusively shown that the matter in the communication was false.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. La Plant v. Hyman
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.