215 N.J. Super. 9 - Bainhauer v. Manoukian’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably Erickson v. Marsh & McLennan Co. (1990), Nanavati v. Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital (1988)
3 federal appellate · 8 district · 41 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. · St. Amant v. Thompson · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · Rosenbloom v. Metromedia, Inc.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[A] communication `made bona fide upon any subject matter in which the party communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has a duty, is privileged if made to a person having a corresponding interest or duty, although it contains criminatory matter which, without this privilege, would be slanderous and actionable.'" [ Bainhauer v. Manoukian, 215 N.J.Super. 9, 36 , 520 A. 2d 1154 (App.Div.1987) (quoting Chief Justice Weintraub quoting Coleman v. Newark Morning Ledger Co., 29 N.J. 357, 375 , 149 A. 2d 193 (1959)).]”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he critical test of the existence of the privilege is the circumstantial justification for the publication of the defamatory information. The critical elements of this test are the appropriateness of the occasion on which the defamatory information is published, the legitimacy of the interest thereby sought to be protected or promoted, and the pertinence of the receipt of that information by the recipient.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the circumstances induce a correct or reasonable belief that (a) there is information that affects a sufficiently important interest of the publisher, and (b) the recipient's knowledge of the defamatory matter will be of service in the lawful protection of the interest.”
2 later decisions 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.