33 Conn. Super. Ct. 4 - Corbett v. Register Publishing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2001
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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · St. Amant v. Thompson · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · Garrison v. State of Louisiana
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Malice might be inferred from the failure to make a reasonably careful investigation of the facts before publication.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In any action for libel . . . unless the plaintiff proves . . . that the defendant, after having been requested by him in writing to retract the libelous charge, in as public a manner as that in which it was made, failed to do so within a reasonable time, he shall recover nothing but such actual damage as he may have specially alleged and proved. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The modern view of this requirement is that the crime be a chargeable offense which is punishable by imprisonment.”
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.