Seltzer v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2002
3 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 7 E.H. Smith 214 - Youmans v. . Smith · Andrews v. . Gardiner · Pecue v. . West · People Ex Rel. Bensky v. Warden of the City Prison · Marsh v. . Ellsworth
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The absolute privilege is afforded only to those publications made `during the course of' or `as part of' the judicial proceeding,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Decker v. State“communications unconnected with the judicial proceeding are not cloaked with the absolute privilege”
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.