Darnell v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Carwile v. Richmond Newspapers, Inc. (1954), McGranahan v. Dahar (1979)
30 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 Robertson v. Commonwealth · M. Rosenberg & Sons, Inc. v. Craft · Penick v. Ratcliffe · Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Nance · Massey v. Jones
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is well settled that `words spoken or written in a judicial proceeding that are relevant and pertinent to the matter under inquiry are absolutely privileged'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the privilege of judicial proceedings is not restricted to trials of civil actions or indictments, but it includes every proceeding before a competent court or magistrate in the due course of law or the administration of justice which is to result in any determination or action of such court or officer. The rule is broad and comprehensive, including within its scope all proceedings of a judicial nature whether pending in some court of justice, or before a tribunal or officer clothed with judicial or quasi judicial powers. It applies to communications made before tribunals having attributes similar to those of courts.”
1 later decision 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.