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142 Ohio App. 3d 244 - Morrison v. Gugle’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

30
cited by 30 later decisions
1
states following
September 2025
most recently cited

28 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Vontz v. Miller (2016), Heaton v. Rohl (2011)

28 state decisions

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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 Greeley v. Miami Valley Maintenance Contractors, Inc. · O'Day v. Webb · Hahn v. Kotten · Crosby v. Beam · Ohio Bell Telephone Co. v. Public Utilities Commission

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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In order for an extrajudicial communication to come within the cloak of absolute privilege it must be (1) made in the regular course of preparing for and conducting a proceeding that is contemplated in good faith and under serious consideration, (2) pertinent to the relief sought, and (3) published only to those directly interested in the proceeding.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Pincus v. Pincus
  2. “Statements made 'in a written pleading or brief, or in an oral statement to a judge or jury in open court, is absolutely privileged if it has some reasonable relation to the judicial proceeding in which it appears.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Schmidt v. Grossman Law Office
  3. “A qualified privilege is an affirmative defense to a claim of defamation.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Hill v. Ohio Dept. of Rehab. & Corr.

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.