Dyer v. Dyer’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2002
16 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 Cooley v. Galyon
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But there is another class of cases which are absolutely privileged, and ‘depend in no respect for their protection upon their bona fides.’ ‘The occasion is an absolute privilege; and the only questions are whether the occasion existed, and whether the matter complained of was pertinent to the occasion. ’ ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Trice
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.