Kidder v. Bacon’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2006
3 federal appellate · 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 State v. Howard · Earl v. Tupper · Rea v. Harrington · Humphries v. Parker · Nott v. Stoddard
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that when the words spoken are actionable the jury have a right to consider the mental suffering which may have been occasioned to a party by the publication of the slanderous words, and to allow damages therefor”); Hacker v. Heiney, 111 Wis. 313 , 87 N.W. 249 , 251 (1901) (rejecting contention that”
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.