Stewart v. Ging’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
2 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Proper v. Mowry (1977), Adams v. Tatsch (1961)
2 district · 36 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 Ward v. Ares · Del Rico Co. v. New Mexican, Inc. · Williams v. Standard-Examiner Pub. Co. · Chase v. New Mexico Pub. Co. · 228 Mo. App. 817 - Conrad v. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Absolute immunity from responsibility without regard to purpose, motive or reasonableness of conduct is, and should be, confined to a very few rather well-recognized situations. Prosser on Torts § 94 (1941).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Neece v. Kantu · Gengler v. Phelps““ ‘Any false and malicious writing published of another is libelous per se, when its tendency is to render him contemptible or ridiculous in public estimation, or expose him to public hatred or contempt, or to hinder virtuous men from association with him.’ ****** “The term ‘per se’ means by itself; simply as such; in its own nature without reference of its relation; and in connection with libel, the term is applied to words which are actionable because they of themselves, without anything more, are opprobrious.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Frost
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.