Jurkowski v. Crawley’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2025
4 federal appellate · 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · St. Amant v. Thompson · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[R]eckless conduct is not measured by whether a reasonably prudent man would have published, or would have investigated before publishing. There must be sufficient evidence to permit the conclusion that the defendant in fact entertained serious doubts as to the truth of his publication. Publishing with such doubts shows reckless disregard for truth ...'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“in describing their actions. Plaintiff also assigns error to the district court's refusal to accept a new affidavit from Plaintiff's expert, submitted in connection with Plaintiff's motion for a new trial filed pursuant to Rule 59(e) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. 40 In order to establish reckless disregard, Plaintiff must demonstrate actual knowledge of probable falsity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Such 'subjective' awareness of probable falsity. . . may be found if there are obvious reasons to doubt the veracity of the information or accuracy of his reports.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.