Crain v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
July 2017
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. · Gibbs v. General Motors Corporation · Reagan v. Guardian Life Insurance · James v. Brown · Runge v. Franklin
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party to a private litigation ... is absolutely privileged to publish defamatory matter concerning another in communications preliminary to a proposed judicial proceeding, or in the institution of or during the course and as a part of, a judicial proceeding in which he participates, if the matter has some relation to the proceeding.”
1 later decision 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.