193 N.J. Super. 12 - Molnar v. Star-Ledger’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Romaine v. Kallinger (1988), Jones v. Taibbi (1987)
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Barr v. Matteo · Gilbert v. First National Bank of Jackson · Dewees v. United States · American Paper Institute, Inc. v. American Electric Power Service Corp. · Gens v. United States
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“analogous to the privilege afforded the news media with respect to full, fair and accurate reports of judicial, legislative and other public proceedings.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A communication made bona fide upon any subject matter in which the party communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has a duty, is privileged if made to a person having a corresponding interest or duty, although it contains criminatory matter which, without this privilege, would be slanderous and actionable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The publication of defamatory matter concerning another in a report of an official action or proceeding or of a meeting open to the public that deals with a matter of public concern is privileged if the report is accurate and complete or a fair abridgement of the occurrence reported. [Restatement, supra, § 611.]”
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.