19 Ohio App. 3d 295 - Lambert v. Garlo’s Empirical Analysis

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3 district · 10 state decisions

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

1. “However, plaintiffs [the parents] were not named in the article, no reference, directly or indirectly, was made concerning them or linking them to the situation and the only reasonable conclusion is that the plaintiffs [the parents] were not directly injured by the statements. ... ... to be actionable it must be shown that the libel was published about or concerning them ... or that defendant had the intention of injuring the relative and was aware of the relative's relationship to the person defamed. See, also, 50 American Jurisprudence 2d (1970) 834, Libel and Slander, Section 311.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 721 So. 2d 1113 - Downtown Grill, Inc. v. Connell

2. ““Every defense, in law or fact, to a claim for relief in any pleading, whether a claim, counterclaim, cross-claim, or third-party claim, shall be asserted in the responsive pleading thereto if one is required, except that the following defenses may at the option of the pleader be made by motion: « * * ❖ “(6) failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 116 Ohio App. 3d 775 - Rothstein v. Montefiore Home