Weir v. McEwan’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 1990
1 district · 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 The Philadelphia Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company v. Philip Quigley · 16 E.H. Smith 154 - Krug v. . Pitass · Haines v. Schultz · Knowlden v. Guardian Printing & Publishing Co. · Garrison v. Robinson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Express malice consists in such a publication from ill-will, or some wrongful motive implying a willingness or intent to injure in addition to the intent to do the unlawful act. It requires affirmative proof, beyond the act of publishing, indicating ill-feeling, or such want of feeling as to impute a bad motive.”
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.