228 N.J. Super. 453 - DeVivo v. Ascher’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably AroChem International, Inc. v. Buirkle (1992), 280 N.J. Super. 125 - Ruberton v. Gabage (1995)
4 district · 17 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 Arizona v. Manypenny · Rainier's Dairies v. Raritan Valley Farms, Inc. · CRIBERG v. Raymond · Green Acres Trust v. London · 60 Cal. App. 3d 573 - Lerette v. Dean Witter Organization, 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even if the words are spoken maliciously, without any justification or excuse, and from personal ill will or anger[.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“could properly have been joined as a party”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[m]atter to which the privilege does not extend must be so wanting in relation to the subject matter in controversy as that no reasonable man can doubt its irrelevancy and impropriety.”
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.