Gomba v. McLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 10 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Churchey v. Adolph Coors Co. (1988), Aids Counseling And Testing Centers v. Group W Television, Incorporated (1990)
10 federal appellate · 10 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 15 Cal. App. 2d 710 - Heuer v. Kee · Brown v. Barnes · Turnbull v. Herald Company · Republican Pub. Co. v. Mosman · Rocky Mountain News Printing Co. v. Fridborn
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant asserting truth as a defense in a libel action is not required to justify every word of the alleged defamatory matter; it is sufficient if the substance, the gist, the sting, of the matter is true. The question, a factual one, is whether there is a substantial difference between the allegedly libelous statement and the truth; or stated differently, whether the statement produces a different effect upon the reader than that which would be produced by the literal truth of the matter.”
3 later decisions 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.