Wells v. Liddy’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · St. Amant v. Thompson
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“looked directly down at a desk of a secretary named Maxine Wells, and her telephone. And they had a telescopic lens camera pointed at that. And that is where the wiretap was subsequently found by the democrats on that phone.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Hypothetically, it may be possible for someone to become a public figure through no purposeful action of his own, but the instances of truly involuntary public figures must be exceedingly rare.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“d[id] not establish the exact nature of the statements sufficiently to demonstrate that the statements were capable of defaming Wells”
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.