Zier v. Hofflin’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 1978
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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 Pratt v. Pioneer Press Co. · Woodling v. Knickerbocker
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.
““Now, although one who publishes a libel is not to be held responsible for an independent wrong done by a third person, though connected with the libel, he is responsible for the natural consequences of his own wrong act, although the wrongful act of a third person may concur in bringing about such consequences. If it were a natural consequence of defendant’s publication through the newspaper that some evil-disposed person should send a copy of the paper, or the item cut from the paper, to some one whom defendant had not thought of its reaching’, he would be liable for it, as the consequences of his own wrong. Townsh. Sland. & L. § 158; Miller v. Butler, 6 Cush. 71 . It was for the Jury to say whether sending the postal card by a third person was a natural consequence of defendant’s publication in the newspaper.””
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.