Brown v. Briggs’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
January 1982
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Pulliam v. Bond · Warren v. Pulitzer Publishing Co. · Turnbull v. Herald Company · Cash v. Empire Gas Corp. · Brown v. Briggs
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In defending on the basis of truth, it is not necessary that the precise facts stated in the (report) be literally true.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Slight inaccuracies of expression are immaterial if the defamatory charge is true in substance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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