147 N.J. Super. 446 - Devlin v. Greiner’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 17 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Correllas v. Viveiros (1991), Romaine v. Kallinger (1988)
3 federal appellate · 17 district · 54 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 Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · 17 Cal. 3d 425 - Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California · Time, Inc. v. Hill · Time, Inc. v. Firestone · Judson v. Peoples Bank & Trust Co. of Westfield
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at a time when litigation had not been instituted, and may not even have been contemplated.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““[defendant clearly had a duty to those he observed to report accurately on their activities ... It is his business, among other things, to supply his clients with information or factual data concerning the activities of others. Where the information gathered by him is of a delicate or sensitive nature, his duty to report that information accurately should extend not only to the person who hired him, but also to the subjects of his surveillance — people whose lives may be materially affected by the accuracy of his reports.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“not lightly extend the grant of absolute privilege to new situations unless the policy upon which the privilege is based is found to exist.”
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.