Allred v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2025
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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 Atlantic City Electric Co. v. United States · E. W. Scripps Co. v. Thomas H. Maloney & Sons, Inc. · 43 Ohio App. 2d 105 - Thomas H. Maloney & Sons, Inc. v. E. W. Scripps Co. · 140 Ind. App. 186 - Gibson v. KINCAID · 18 Utah 2d 70 - Western States Title Insurance Co. v. Warnock
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) charge of criminal conduct, (2) charge of a loathsome disease, (3) charge of conduct that is incompatible with the exercise of a lawful business, trade, profession, or office; and (4) charge of the unchastity of a woman.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“When language is used concerning a person or his affairs which from its nature necessarily must, or presumably will, as its natural and proximate consequence, occasion him pecuniary loss, its publication is libelous per se. [Citations omitted.] The nature of the writing must be such that the court can legally presume that the plaintiff has been damaged. [Citation omitted.] ... Except where this presumption exists, special damages to the plaintiff’s reputation must be alleged and proved to have been the actual and natural result of the language used. [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baum v. Gillman“if the statement made is capable of two interpretations, one interpretation which might refer to his professional reputation and one which might refer to his personal character, it cannot be slander per se.”
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.