Grimaldi v. Schillaci’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2003
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.
Most-quoted passages
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“Words are libelous without allegations of special damages “if they affect a person in his profession, trade, or business, by imputing to him any kind of fraud, dishonesty, misconduct, incapacity, unfitness or want of any necessary qualification in the exercise thereof.” (quoting Grimaldi v. Schillaci, 106 A.D.2d 728, 730 , 484 N.Y.S.2d 159, 161 (3d Dep’t 1984); Four Star Stage Lighting v. Merrick, 56 A.D.2d 767, 768 , 392 N.Y.S.2d 297 (1st Dep’t 1977)). A statement as to ... unprofitability ... fails to impute any of the above-mentioned characteristics.”
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.