Dixson v. Newsweek, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
562 F.2d 626 · 1977
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Ollman v. Evans (1984), Nader v. De Toledano (1979)
24 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · St. Amant v. Thompson · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · Patterson v. United States
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an act destitute of heed or concern for consequences, especially foolishly heedless of danger; headlong, rash; without thought or care of the consequences.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The protections afforded the press when it reports on public officials and public figures do not shield it from liability when it publishes defamatory statements concerning private individuals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A publisher may not escape liability for defamation when it takes words out of context and uses them to convey a false representation of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.