Kennerly v. Hennessy’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1958
10 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 Commonwealth v. Clap · Eldridge v. State · Lewis v. Nelson
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ A criminal prosecution for libel is warranted only when the alleged libel affects .the public, as when it corrupts the public morals or incites to violations of the criminal law, or when the necessary or natural effect of the alleged publication is to cause an injury to a person or’persons of such a nature and extent as to render a breach of the peace imminent or probable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. McClelland
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.