Pape v. Time, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
354 F.2d 558 · 1965
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2014 · most notably Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts (1967), Time Incorporated v. Pape (1971)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 · Garrison v. State of Louisiana · Henry v. Collins · Snively v. Record Publishing Co. · Lawrence v. Fox
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]hat prohibits a public official from recovering damages for a defamatory falsehood relating to his official conduct unless he proves that the statement was made with `actual malice' — that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not. * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“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.“`It is our opinion that a jury could read the Time article as stating that the Report said Pape and his follow (sic) officers did what the Commission Report merely said the Monroe complaint alleged they did. '”
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.