Lawson v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
1862
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2010 · most notably Briscoe v. W (1983), Berry v. City of New York Ins. Co. (1923)
1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Blakey's Heirs v. Blakey's · Hastings v. Lusk · Ewing v. Sanford · Long v. Rodgers · Ring v. Wheeler
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Comprehends all those cases,’ where the author of the alleged mischief acted in the discharge of any public or private duty, whether legal or moral, which the ordinary exigencies of society, or his own private interest, or even that of another, called upon him to perform.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kenney v. Gurley“When they are [qualifiedly] privileged, the law simply withdraws the legal inference of malice, and gives a protection upon the condition, that actual malice, or express malice, or malice in fact, (as the same idea is variously phrased,) is not shown.”
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.