Richard v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 159 Cal. App. 4th 1154 - Krinsky v. Doe 6 (2008), 273 So. 2d 774 - Wolfson v. Kirk (1973)
3 federal appellate · 19 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 Cooper v. the Miami Herald Publishing Co. · Budd v. J. Y. Gooch Co., Inc. · Caldwell v. Crowell-Collier Pub. Co. · McClellan v. L'Engle · Metropolis Co. v. Croasdell
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are not to be construed or taken in their mildest or most grievous sense, but in that sense in which they may be understood and in which they appear to have been used and according to the ideas which they were adopted to convey to those who hear them or to whom they are addressed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]harges that a person has committed an infamous crime; charges a person with having an infectious disease; tends to subject one to hatred, distrust, ridicule, contempt, or disgrace; or tends to injure one in his trade or profession.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as the common mind would naturally understand it,”
2 later decisions 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.