Whittemore v. Weiss’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2015
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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The judge charged the jury that malice is to be presumed from the publication and its falsity; that, to- rebut this presumption, defendants must prove that they made the publication in good faith, believing it to be true in all its essential parts, and for a proper purpose. Defendants insist that the purpose is immaterial, if they believed what they published, and made the publication in good faith. This might be so if the publication had been true, but good faith cannot protect a false publication, nor can one excuse himself for. mailing a mistaken assault upon his neighbor’s reputation by showing the absence of malice, when, even had Ms charge been true-, there was no proper purpose in bringing tbe matter to public notice.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Owen v. Dewey · People v. Talbot
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.