Hartmann v. Time, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 1990 · most notably Wild v. Rarig (1975), Hartmann v. Time, Inc. (1947)
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 13 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Toebelman v. Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. · Forman v. Mississippi Publishers Corp. · Age-Herald Pub. Co. v. Huddleston · Renfro Drug Co. v. Lawson · Rossiter v. Vogel
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The rule is settled, in Federal and Pennsylvania courts, not inconsistent with Rule 15(c), that an amendment stating a new cause of action on which the statute of limitations has run may not be permitted. * * * The relation back provided for in Rule 15(c) applies, as it is clearly stated therein, only when the asserted claim or defense arose out of the conduct, transaction or occurrence set forth or attempted to be set forth in the original pleading. * * * ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The term ‘publication’ as used in the law of defamation is a term of art, so to speak, and generally, defamatory matter is ‘published’ only upon ‘its communication intentionally or by a negligent act to one other than the person defamed.’ Restatement of the Law of Torts, Sec. 577. See Summit Hotel Co. v. National Broadcasting Co., 1939, 336 Pa. 182,195 , 8 A.2d 302 , 124 A.L.R. 968 . The mere speaking or writing of defamatory words, it is well settled insofar as civil actions are concerned, is not actionable unless such words are heard or read and understood by persons other than the defamed; hence, the cause of action accrues only upon the satisfaction of this condition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““I think it manifest that the affidavit, insofar as it records the statements of [a third party] * * * is of no probative force, since it is clearly hearsay, and must be disregarded under Rule 56(e), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. * * * ” 64 F.Supp. at 677 .”
1 later decision 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.