Winters v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1998
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Fite v. Oklahoma Publishing Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Those not of defamatory meaning; (2) Those reasonably susceptible of both a defamatory and an innocent meaning (commonly referred to as libel per quod); and (3) Those clearly defamatory on their face (commonly referred to as libel per se). (In accord, see Akins v. Altus Newspapers, Inc., Okl., 609 P.2d 1263 (1977), cert. den. [ 449 U.S. 1010 ], 101 S.Ct. 564 [ 66 L.Ed.2d 467 ].)”
1 later decision 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.