More v. . Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 1970 · most notably Julian v. American Business Consultants, Inc. (1956), Toomey v. Farley (1956)
1 federal appellate · 40 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.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Words which are in themselves actionable; which, in their natural construction, tend to injure the memory of the dead, or the reputation of one alive, and expose him to hatred, contempt, or ridicule,—need no averment that they were intended to impute such offense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.