Idema v. Wager’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2021
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Erie Co v. Tompkins · Paul v. Davis · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Siegert v. Gilley
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defamation is the injury to one's reputation either by written expression, which is libel, or by oral expression, which is slander.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The report is not required to use the same words as the pleadings to convey the substance of the judicial proceeding and '[t]he challenged language ... should not be dissected and analyzed with a lexicographer's precision.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(1) a written defamatory factual statement [of and] concerning the plaintiff; (2) publication to a third party; (3) fault; (4) falsity of the defamatory statement; and (5) special damages or per se actionability.”
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.