Capps v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably Holtzscheiter v. Thomson Newspapers, Inc. (1998), Austin v. Torrington Co. (1987)
2 federal appellate · 17 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 Riley v. Askin & Marine Co. · Costas v. Florence Printing Co. · Dauterman v. State-Record Co. · Galloway v. Cox · 339 F. Supp. 969 - Smith v. Phoenix Furniture Company
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Actionable per se' simply means that a libelous publication, whether libelous on its face or by reason of extrinsic facts, is actionable without the pleading of special damage. `Libelous per se' means that a publication is both (1) libelous on its face and (2) actionable on its face without the pleading of special damage.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“tend to impeach the reputation of the plaintiff.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“To be libelous the words, on their face or by reason of extrinsic facts, must tend to impeach the reputation of the plaintiff.... To be actionable, the libel, as a result of its tendency to impeach or injure the plaintiff's reputation, must thereby injure him.”
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.