23 Ohio App. 3d 146 - Smith v. Klein’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Mauzy v. Kelly Services, Inc. (1996), Joyce v. General Motors Corp. (1990)
3 federal appellate · 59 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 Hickman v. Taylor · State ex rel. Daggett v. Gessaman · Hahn v. Kotten · Henkel v. Educational Research Council of America · 55 Ohio App. 2d 51 - Juhasz v. Quik Shops, 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1 * * * one who, without a privilege to do so, induces or otherwise purposely causes a third party not to enter into, or continue, a business relationship with another, or perform a contract with another * * *.’ Juhasz v. Quik Shops, Inc. (1977), 55 Ohio App.2d 51, 57 [ 9 O.O.3d 216, 219 , 379 N.E.2d 235, 238 ].” Smith v. Klein (1985), 23 Ohio App.3d 146, 148 , 23 OBR 387, 389, 492 N.E.2d 852, 855, fn. 1 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““A qualified or conditionally privileged communication is one made in good faith on any subject matter in which the person communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has a right or duty, if made to a person having a corresponding interest or duty on a privileged occasion and in a manner and under circumstances fairly warranted by the occasion and duty, right or interest.” 43 Ohio St.2d at 244 , 72 O.O.2d at 138, 331 N.E.2d at 718-719 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where the defamation is published (including spoken or written) to someone not within the qualified privilege or is done with actual malice, the privilege will not protect an individual.”
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.