Wright v. Haas’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2014
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Northrip v. Montgomery Ward & Co. · Martin v. Griffin Television, Inc. · Fawcett Publications, Inc. v. Morris · Weaver v. Pryor Jeffersonian
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Reckless disregard as to truth or falsity exists when there is a high degree of awareness of probable falsity or serious doubt as to the truth of the statement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'in fact entertained serious doubts as to the truth of his publication,' or had a 'high degree of awareness of ... probable falsity.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Le Baud v. Frische“'was making the statement to protect certain defined interests'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Le Baud v. Frische
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.