209 Ill. App. 3d 936 - Weber v. Cueto’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 236 Ill. App. 3d 868 - Geick v. Kay (1992), 253 Ill. App. 3d 509 - Weber v. Cueto (1993)
4 federal appellate · 26 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
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America North Dakota Division v. Wday Inc · 106 Ill. App. 3d 626 - American Pet Motels, Inc. v. Chicago Veterinary Medical Ass'n · 125 Ill. 2d 531 - In Re Himmel · Cook v. East Shore Newspapers, Inc. · 67 Ill. App. 3d 179 - Weiler v. Stern
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A communication is absolutely privileged when its propagation is so much in the public interest that the publisher should speak fully and fearlessly. [Citation.] As a matter of public policy certain types of defamatory statements are deemed privileged so that the person making the statement will not be deterred from speaking by the threat of civil liability. [Citation.] *** The defense of absolute privilege has been described as resting upon the idea that conduct which otherwise would be actionable is to escape liability because the defendant is acting in furtherance of some interest of social importance that is entitled to protection even at the expense of uncompensated harm to the plaintiff’s reputation. [Citation.] The privilege is ‘ “based upon a policy which regards the ends to be gained by permitting such statements as outweighing the 'harm which may be done to the reputation of others.” [Citations.]’ [Citation.] The class of absolutely privileged communications is narrow and is practically limited to legislative and judicial proceedings and other acts of State, including communications made in the discharge of a duty under express authority of law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'A communication is absolutely privileged when its propagation is so much in the public interest that the publisher should speak fully and fearlessly.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“One who is required by law to publish defamatory matter is absolutely privileged to publish it.”
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.