Varnish v. Best Medium Publishing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
405 F.2d 608 · 1968
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 · St. Amant v. Thompson · Garrison v. State of Louisiana · Time, Inc. v. Hill · New York Central Railroad v. Board of Public Utility Commissioners
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.
“We cannot say as a matter of law that the [Journal] article would not be offensive to a person of ordinary sensibilities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[e]vidence of recklessness consist[ed] largely of the author's testimony ... that he had no basis”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tavoulareas v. Piro
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.