Mack v. Costello’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1968
8 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 Kennedy v. Board of Education · People Ex Rel. Bartlett v. Medical Society of Erie · State ex rel. Waring v. Georgia Medical Society · Dane v. Derby · Amidon v. Florence Farmers' Elevator 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * The publisher in publishing a newspaper, assumes no ‘office, trust or station,’ in a public sense, or enters into any public or contractual relation with the community at large.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kantack v. Kreuer
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.