Schulze v. Coykendall’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 16 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently July 1999 · most notably White v. General Motors Corp. (1990), Turner v. Halliburton Co. (1986)
6 federal appellate · 16 district · 34 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 · Hovey v. Elliott · Hammond Packing Company v. State of Arkansas · Cantrell v. Forest City Publishing Co. · Gainesville Utilities Department v. Florida Power Corp.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Proof of actual malice in defamation actions when a conditional privilege is found to exist requires a plaintiff to prove that the publication was made with knowledge that the defamatory statement was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not. (Citations omitted).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Absolute privilege is recognized in cases where the public service or the administration of justice requires complete immunity as in legislative, executive or judicial proceedings, the occasion for the immunity being not so much for those engaged as for the promotion of the public welfare. 545 P.2d at 398 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Foster v. Pearcy“the alleged words spoken or published, the names of those persons to whom they were spoken or published and the time and place of their publication.”
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.