1 Kan. App. 2d 191 - Sampson v. Rumsey’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Circus Circus Hotels, Inc. v. Witherspoon (1983), Rambo v. Cohen (1992)
4 district · 31 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 Imbler v. Pachtman · Gregoire v. Biddle · Albrecht v. Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad · Moriarty v. Lippe · Charles Parker Co. v. Silver City Crystal Co.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Absolute privilege is founded on public policy and provides immunity for those engaged in the public service and in the enactment and administration of law. It is not intended so much for the protection of those engaged in that service as it is for the promotion of the public welfare, the purpose being that members of the legislature, judges of courts, jurors, lawyers and witnesses may speak their minds freely and exercise their respective functions without incurring the risk of a criminal prosecution or an action for recovery of damages.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jarvis v. Drake · Purdum v. Purdum““Other words uttered in the presence of those assembled, ‘clown,’ ‘big fat ape,’ ‘smart aleck,’ ‘big fat oaf,’ and ‘stupid son of a bitch,’ were here merely gross and vulgar expressions of abuse. The general rule has long been that such words of general abuse, regardless of how rude, uncouth or vexatious are not slanderous per se and cannot support recovery in a slander action in the absence of a showing of special damages. Notes, 13 A. L. R. 3d 1286, 1290, 37 A. L. R. 883, 885.” (Moriarty v. Lippe, 162 Conn. 371, 385 , 294 A. 2d 326 [1972].)”
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.