Klinck v. . Colby’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently June 1977 · most notably 169 Ind. App. 413 - Weenig v. Wood (1976), Reid v. Barry (1927)
1 federal appellate · 74 state decisions — followed in 18 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.
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As a general proposition it may be said that the question of whether a publication is a privileged communication is one for the jury. That is to say, the court may determine whether the subject-matter to which the alleged libel relates, the interest in it of the defendant, or his relations to it, are such as to furnish the excuse.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schuyler v. Busbey
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.