Saenz v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2012
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 12 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · 42 Cal. 3d 1033 - Blatty v. New York Times Co. · Garcia v. Genuine Parts Co. · Marchiondo v. Brown · Church of Scientology v. Flynn
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No action lies for publication of defamatory words concerning a group or class of persons unless the group or class is so small that the matter can reasonably be understood to refer to the plaintiff, or unless the circumstances of publication reasonably give rise to the conclusion that there is particular reference to the member.”
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.