Sanchez v. Coxon’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Florez v. Sargeant (1996), Burns v. Davis (1999)
35 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 Tenney v. Brandhove · Gregoire v. Biddle · Albrecht v. Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad · Ryan v. State · Grimm v. Arizona Board of Pardons & Paroles
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is impossible to know whether the [defamation] claim is well founded until the case has been tried, and ... to submit all officials, the innocent as well as the guilty, to the burden of a trial and to the inevitable danger of its outcome, would dampen the ardor of all but the most resolute, or the most irresponsible, in the unflinching discharge of their duties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zutz v. Nelson“legislative officers ... are absolutely privileged in publishing defamatory matter while they are performing a legislative function although the defamatory matter has no relation to a legitimate object of legislative concern.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zutz v. Nelson
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.