Henry v. Cherry Webb’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 16 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably McKeiver v. Pennsylvania (1971), Goldman v. United States (1942)
12 federal appellate · 16 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Allgeyer v. State of Louisiana · License Tax Cases · People ex rel. Drake v. Mahaney · Roberson v. . Rochester Folding Box Co.
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“mental suffering alone [will] sustain a right of action” if “the words spoken or pictures published are of such a nature that the court can conclude, as a matter of law, that they will tend to degrade the person, or hold him up to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule, or cause him to be shunned and avoided”); Neafie v. Hoboken Printing & Publ’g Co., 75 N.J.L. 564 , 566, 68 A. 146 , 147 (1907) (rejecting view that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . as we understand the question, the right of privacy . . . contemplates a simple right, uncomplicated with and uninfluenced by other rights; as, for example, the right to . . . property . . . .” (at 19)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.