Fink v. Oshins’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Clark County School District v. Virtual Education Software, Inc. (2009), Cucinotta v. Deloitte & Touche, L.L.P. (2013)
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 14 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 Circus Circus Hotels, Inc. v. Witherspoon · Posadas v. City of Reno · State Industrial Insurance System v. United Exposition Services Co. · Bull v. McCuskey · K-Mart Corporation v. Washington
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[party's] statements to someone who is not directly involved with the actual or anticipated judicial proceeding will be covered by the absolute privilege only if the recipient of the communication is significantly interested in the proceeding”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The policy behind the [litigation] privilege, as it applies to attorneys participating in judicial proceedings, is to grant them 'as officers of the court the utmost freedom in their efforts to obtain justice for their clients.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he privilege applies not only to communications made during actual judicial proceedings, but also to 'communications preliminary to a proposed judicial proceeding.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. WILLIAMS VS. LAZER
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.