Faber v. Byrle’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 1996 · most notably 173 W. Va. 699 - Crump v. Beckley Newspapers, Inc. (1984), Stice v. Beacon Newspaper Corporation (1959)
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 25 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 Rusch v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · Richardson v. Gunby · Kirkpatrick v. Eagle Lodge No. 32 · Stone v. Hutchinson Daily News · Sowers v. Wells
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . A communication made in good faith on any subject matter in which the person communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has a duty, is privileged if made to a person having a corresponding interest or duty, even though it contains matter which, without this privilege, would be actionable, and although the duty is not a legal one, but only a moral or social duty of imperfect obligation. The essential elements of a conditionally privileged communication may accordingly be enumerated as good faith, an interest to be upheld, a statement limited in its scope to this purpose, a proper occasion, and publication in a proper manner and to proper parties only. The privilege arises from the necessity of full and unrestricted communication concerning a matter in which the parties have an interest or duty, and is not restricted within any narrow limits.’ ” (p. 42.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““An occasion is conditionally privileged when the circumstances induce a correct or reasonable belief that (a) facts exist which affect the well-being of a member of the immediate family of the recipient or of a third person, and (b) the recipient’s knowledge of the defamatory matter will be of service in the lawful protection of such person’s well-being and (c) the recipient has requested the publication of the defamatory matter or is a person to whom its publication is otherwise within generally accepted standards of decent conduct.””
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.