Toomey v. Farley’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently October 1996 · most notably Roginsky v. Richardson-Merrell, Inc. (1967), William F. Buckley, Jr. v. Franklin H. Littell (1976)
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 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 Stern v. Board of Levee Commissioners · Malinski v. People of State of New York · Mencher v. Chesley · Gregoire v. G. P. Putnam's Sons · Reynolds v. Pegler
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would mean that a defamer gains a measure of immunity no matter how venomous or malicious his attack simply because of the excellent reputation of the defamed; it would mean that the defamer, motivated by actual malice, becomes the beneficiary of that unassailable reputation and so escapes punishment.”
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.