Leeb v. DeLong’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably 48 Cal. App. 4th 1114 - Xi Zhao v. Wong (1996), 37 Cal. App. 4th 914 - Chantiles v. Lake Forest II Master Homeowners Ass'n (1995)
24 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. · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Perry Education Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n · Pell v. Procunier
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A school district in this state may censor expression from official school publications which it reasonably believes to contain an actionable defamation, but not as a matter of taste or pedagogy. [Citations.] Grading or postpublication discipline, if warranted, is adequate to achieve the latter ends.” ( 198 Cal.App.3d at p. 60 , fn. omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“of continuing public interest and likely to recur in circumstances where, as here, there is insufficient time to afford full appellate review”
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.