Cinquanta v. Burdett’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Barlow v. International Harvester Company (1974), Bucher v. Roberts (1979)
4 federal appellate · 8 district · 31 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 Diener v. Star-Chronicle Publishing Co. · Yakavicze v. Valentukevicious · Bennett v. Seimiller · Herman v. Post · McKenzie v. Denver Times Publishing 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To come within the exception permitting recovery in an action for slander without proof of special damage because the word spoken imputed crime, it is the general rule that such words must impute conduct constituting a criminal offense chargeable by indictment or by information either at common law or by statute and of such kind as to involve infamous punishment or moral turpitude conveying the idea of major social disgrace.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fort v. Holt“calculated [attempt] to injure the reputation and credit”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.