191 Wis. 2d 517 - Bauer v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 212 Wis. 2d 609 - Valley Bancorporation v. Auto Owners Insurance Co. (1997), Storms v. Action Wisconsin Inc. (2008)
21 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 · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if it tends so to harm the reputation of another as to lower him [or her] in the estimation of the community or to deter third persons from associating or dealing with him [or her].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“and communicates what the courts have described as”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.