Baker v. Bhajan’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2012
6 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 Blauwkamp v. University of New Mexico Hospital · State v. Greene · Neece v. Kantu · Doe v. State Ex Rel. Governor's Organized Crime Prevention Commission · Jones v. New Mexico State Racing Commission
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Abuse [of privilege] arises out of the publisher’s lack of belief, or reasonable grounds for belief, in the truth of the alleged defamation; by the publication of the material for an improper use; by the publication to a person not reasonably necessary for the accomplishment of the purpose; or by publication not reasonably necessary to accomplish the purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the consent of another to the publication of defamatory matter concerning him is a complete defense to his action for defamation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cox v. Nasche
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.