Turner v. Devlin’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably West v. Thomson Newspapers (1994), Dube v. Likins (2007)
2 federal appellate · 10 district · 23 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Connick v. Myers · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co. · Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under Arizona common law, a defamatory publication by a private figure on matters of private concern 'must be false and must bring the defamed person into disrepute, contempt, or ridicule, or must impeach that person's honesty, integrity, virtue, or reputation.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. John Doe v. Mahoney“if [the allegedly defamatory] statement could reasonably be interpreted as accusing [the officer] of physically abusing the victim, we would have a different case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[S]tatements of opinion are actionable when `they imply a false assertion of fact.' Milkovich, 497 U.S. at 18-19 , 110 S.Ct. at 2706 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.