Lewis v. Time Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
710 F.2d 549 · 1983
Citation profile
75 federal appellate · 22 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 166 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably Strada v. Connecticut Newspapers, Inc. (1984), Blau v. Del Monte Corporation (1985)
75 federal appellate · 22 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 13 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Old Dominion Branch No. 496 v. Austin · Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Assn., Inc. v. Bresler · 15 Cal. 3d 838 - In Re Marriage of Brown
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 166 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the federal [district] court would have had jurisdiction had the case been filed in federal court in the posture it had at the time of the entry of final judgment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]here a publication sets forth the facts underlying its statement of opinion ... and those facts are true, the Constitution protects that opinion from liability for defamation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not permit a court to grant relief when the failure to make a timely demand results from an oversight or inadvertence.”
3 later decisions 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.