Luper v. Black Dispatch Publishing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2023
1 federal appellate · 6 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. · St. Amant v. Thompson · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · Garrison v. State of Louisiana
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e have no occasion here to determine how far down into the lower ranks of government employees the 'public official' designation would extend for purposes of this rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'in fact entertained serious doubts as to the truth of his publication,' or had a 'high degree of awareness of ... probable falsity.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Le Baud v. Frische“'proof of the guilty knowledge prior to publication ... is required to escape defendant's summary judgment'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Le Baud v. Frische
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.