Pape v. Time, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
318 F.2d 652 · 1963
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1987
7 federal appellate · 2 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 Monroe v. Pape · Hannah v. Larche · 24 Ill. 2d 437 - John v. Tribune Company · Cook v. East Shore Newspapers, Inc. · 340 Ill. App. 303 - Dilling v. Illinois Publishing & Printing 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We conclude that Time took the risk, when it reworded parts of the Commission Report, that it might go too far, * * * A jury could find that Time went beyond the limit of fairness here and in doing so was not protected by its privilege of fair comment, and that in making its article more interesting and readable for its audience, it departed from fidelity to the Commission Report.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pape v. Time, Inc.“In no case has the Commission determined conclusively whether the complainants or the officers were correct in their statements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pape v. Time, Inc.“* * * on the basis of a complaint which alleged that: * * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pape v. Time, Inc.
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.