Gilman v. Lowell’s Empirical Analysis
1832
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 1917 · most notably State v. Burnham (1837), Krup v. Corley (1902)
2 federal appellate · 26 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.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether the plaintiff’s rank and condition in life may be shown either to enhance or diminish the damages, it is unnecessary now to decide; and it is not perceived that this principle has any connection with malice [which was the precise point before the court]. It is proper under the head of inquiry into general character. Persons in different stations would be differently damnified by the same slanders.””
1 later decision 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.