215 Wis. 2d 326 - Vultaggio v. Yasko’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2013
14 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 149 Wis. 2d 913 - Zinda v. Louisiana Pacific Corp. · 142 Wis. 2d 894 - Kensington Development Corp. v. Israel · 98 Ohio App. 3d 434 - North Coast Cable Ltd. Partnership v. Hanneman · 64 Wis. 2d 747 - Bergman v. Hupy · Spoehr v. Mittelstadt
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] witness is absolutely privileged to publish defamatory matter as part of a legislative proceeding in which he is testifying or in communications preliminary to the proceeding, if the matter had some relation to the proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. Hebert“[r]egardless of whether such suits are legitimate grievances or SLAPP suits (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) the possibility of a multi-million dollar lawsuit may chill democratic participation ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lassa v. Rongstad
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.