14 Ariz. App. 149 - Stewart v. Fahey’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably Green Acres Trust v. London (1984), 170 N.J. Super. 491 - Wendy's of So. Jersey, Inc. v. Blanchard Manage. Corp. (1979)
53 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 46 Cal. 2d 375 - Albertson v. Raboff · Laun v. Union Electric Co. of Missouri · Gosewisch v. Doran · Crawford v. Rogers · Barnett v. Hitching Post Lodge, Inc.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) With few exceptions, any publication made in a judicial proceeding enjoys absolute privilege from later charges of defamation. (2) The sole purpose of recording a notice of lis pendens is to give to prospective buyers constructive notice of the pendency of the proceedings. (3) The notice of lis pendens is purely incidental to the action wherein it is filed, and refers specifically to such action and has no existence apart from that action. (4) The recording of a notice of lis pendens is in effect a republication of the proceedings in the action and therefore, it is accorded the same absolute privilege as any other publication incident to the action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““In an action affecting title to real property, plaintiff at the time of filing the complaint, or thereafter, and defendant at the time of filing his pleading when affirmative relief is claimed in such pleading, or thereafter, may file , in the office of the recorder of the county in which the property is situated a notice, of the pendency of the action or defense. The notice shall contain the names of the parties, the object of the action or affirmative defense, the relief demanded and a description of the property affected.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Zamarello v. Yale · Kelly v. Perry““A party to a private litigation . is absolutely privileged to publish false and defamatory matter of another in communications preliminary to a proposed judicial proceeding, or in the institution of or during the course and as a part of a judicial proceeding in which he participates, if the matter has some relation thereto.” 14 Ariz.App. at 151 , 481 P.2d at 521 (Emphasis added)”
2 later decisions 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.