21 Ohio App. 3d 134 - Matalka v. Lagemann’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably 104 Ohio App. 3d 95 - Garofalo v. Chicago Title Insurance (1995), 68 Ohio App. 3d 359 - Ashcroft v. Mount Sinai Medical Center (1990)
5 federal appellate · 87 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 Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Assn., Inc. v. Bresler · 43 Ohio App. 2d 105 - Thomas H. Maloney & Sons, Inc. v. E. W. Scripps Co. · Embers Supper Club, Inc. v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co.
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]efamation may be defined as a false publication causing injury to a person's reputation, or exposing him to public hatred, contempt, ridicule, shame or disgrace, or affecting him adversely in his trade or business.”
4 later decisions 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.