Time, Inc. v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
448 F.2d 378 · 1971
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 10 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Strada v. Connecticut Newspapers, Inc. (1984), Goodrich v. Waterbury Republican-American, Inc. (1982)
26 federal appellate · 10 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 16 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 · St. Amant v. Thompson · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · Garrison v. State of Louisiana · Winters v. People of State of New York
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o deny the press the right to use hyperbole ... would condemn the press to an arid, desiccated recital of bare facts”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[M]ere passage of time will not necessarily insulate from the application of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan , publications relating to the past public conduct of a then "public figure.' No rule of repose exists to inhibit speech relating to the public career of a public figure so long as newsworthiness and public interest attach to events in such public career.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“He had offered his services to the public as a paid performer and had thereby invited comments on his performance as such. In a sense, he assumed the risk of publicity, good or bad, so far as it concerned his public performance. 7”
2 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.