Ely v. Mason’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably Miles v. Perry (1987), Bleich v. Ortiz (1985)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 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 Atwater v. Morning News Co. · Barry v. McCollom · Flanagan v. McLane · Anderson v. Cowles
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.
“for believing that the statements made by him were true; it is enough if he honestly believed them to be true and made them in good faith,' on an occasion of privilege to discharge a duty or protect his interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`[i]t is not essential in order to invoke the protection of a privileged communication that the defendant should have had what might seem to the trier to be "good reasons”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"As the defamatory statements were made on an occasion of privilege, the burden rests upon the plaintiff to prove actual malice or malice in fact in order to recover."”
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.