Dixon v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 1982
19 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 Bourland v. Hildreth · Hicks v. Coleman · Sill v. Reese · Rhodes v. Naglee · Brown v. Kentfield
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When language is actionable and it does not appear that it is privileged, it is presumed to be both false and malicious, and no other evidence of falsehood or malice is necessary than the publication itself”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“because the evidence of plaintiff proved prima facie that the publication was false and malicious.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.