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← 171 P3D 41 - State v. Carpenter

State v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
2
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

2 district · 13 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 47 U.S.C. § 223

Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Miller v. California

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

  1. “(1) a false and defamatory statement; (2) unprivileged publication to a third party; (3) fault amounting at least to negligence; and (4) either per se actiona-bility or special damages.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “n order to ensure that the state is not unjustly enriched at the expense of litigants, we read AS 09.60.080 to require a pro rata deduction of costs from the state's share of the punitive damages award.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “punitive damages may sometimes be the only appropriate damages recoverable for spoliation, especially when the jury finds no liability for the underlying claims”
    1 later decision 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.