Garson v. Hendlin’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2010
4 federal appellate ·
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 Maurice O'Meara Co. v. National Park Bank · Hoeppner v. Dunkirk Printing Co. · Bank for Savings v. Rellim Construction 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the relation of the parties should be such as to afford reasonable ground for supposing an innocent motive for giving the information, and to deprive the act of an appearance of officious intermeddling with the affairs of others.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gay v. Carlson · Gay v. Carlson“the good that may be accomplished by permitting an individual to make a defamatory statement without fear of liability outweighs the harm that may be done to the reputation of others.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gay v. Carlson · Gay v. Carlson
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.