117 Ohio App. 3d 361 - Pollock v. Rashid’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably 221 Ill. 2d 558 - Solaia Technology, LLC v. Specialty Publishing Co. (2006), 164 Ohio App. 3d 278 - Wilson v. Harvey (2005)
83 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 O'Brien v. University Community Tenants Union, Inc. · Mitchell v. Lawson Milk Co. · Yeager v. Local Union 20, Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen & Helpers of America · Lansdowne v. Beacon Journal Publishing Co. · 27 Ohio App. 3d 163 - Killilea v. Sears, Roebuck 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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'To establish defamation, the plaintiff must show (1) that a false statement of fact was made, (2) that the statement was defamatory, (3) that the statement was published, (4) that the plaintiff suffered injury as a proximate result of the publication, and (5) that the defendant acted with the requisite degree of fault in publishing the statement.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the publicizing of one's private affairs with which the public has no legitimate concern,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is no liability when the defendant merely gives further publicity to information about the plaintiff that is already public[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.