Harris v. Curtis Publishing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently April 1989 · most notably 48 Cal. 3d 711 - Brown v. Kelly Broadcasting Co. (1989), 52 Cal. 2d 536 - MacLeod v. Tribune Publishing Co. (1959)
12 federal appellate · 33 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 Davis v. Hearst · Snively v. Record Publishing Co. · Bates v. Campbell · Stevens v. Snow · Bettner v. Holt
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The precise question here presented is new, which is not surprising since attacked publications are usually not alike nor even similar, and since there have been so few cases involving an attack upon political or economic opinions or theories, especially where they were not accompanied by charges of criminal or traitorous acts.””
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.