Time Incorporated v. Pape’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
215 federal appellate · 57 district · 360 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 813 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. (1984), Ohralik v. Ohio State Bar Assn. (1978)
215 federal appellate · 57 district · 360 state decisions — followed in 42 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedPape v. Time, Inc. (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Monroe v. Pape · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · St. Amant v. Thompson · Garrison v. State of Louisiana
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 813 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“amounted to the adoption of one of a number of possible rational interpretations of a document that bristled with ambiguities. The deliberate choice of such an interpretation, though arguably reflecting a misconception, was not enough to create a jury issue of”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Garrison echoed this necessity for a showing that a false publication be made with”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“of such an indirect newspaper report presents rather complicated problems. 64 Where the document reported on is so ambiguous as this one was, it is hard to imagine a test of”
6 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.