Ollman v. Evans Et Al.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
167 federal appellate · 73 district · 323 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 663 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2020 · most notably Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co. (1990), Harte-Hanks Communications, Inc. v. Connaughton (1989)
167 federal appellate · 73 district · 323 state decisions — followed in 27 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 · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Ollman v. Evans · November v. Time Inc.
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 663 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries but on the competition of other ideas. But there is no constitutional value in false statements of fact.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.