Shaw v. Bender’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2016
2 district · 15 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 Dickinson v. Erie Railroad · State v. Heyer · Johnson v. Shields · Titus v. Pennsylvania Railroad
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.
“[s]poken words are defamatory when the imputation cast by them on the plaintiff is on the face of it so injurious that the court will presume, without proof, that plaintiff's reputation has been thereby impaired....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]henever words clearly `sound to the disreputation' of the plaintiff, there is no need of further proof, they are defamatory on their face and actionable per se.”
2 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.