Wieman v. Mabee’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 1993
1 district · 12 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 Foster v. Scripps
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the present case the communication was fully privileged. It was made by persons interested in the school to the person qualified to receive and act on the petition, for an honest purpose, and with an honest belief in the justice of their action. In such cases no action can be maintained, even if the complaint is untrue, if not maliciously made.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wolff v. Smith
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.