Henry v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
71 federal appellate · 182 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 307 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably Harte-Hanks Communications, Inc. v. Connaughton (1989), Old Dominion Branch No. 496 v. Austin (1974)
71 federal appellate · 182 state decisions — followed in 33 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Garrison v. State of Louisiana · Henry v. Collins · Henry v. Pearson
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 307 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“intent to inflict harm through falsehood.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.