Borg v. Boas’s Empirical Analysis
231 F.2d 788 · 1956
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2020
5 federal appellate · 7 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 Gough v. Tribune-Journal Co. · State v. Sheridan
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.
“It is hornbook learning that the actions and utterances in judicial proceedings so far as the actual participants therein are concerned and preliminary steps leading to judicial action of an official nature have been given absolute privilege.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. John Doe v. Roe““[T]he information given to a prosecutor by a private person for the purpose of initiating a prosecution is protected by the same cloak of immunity and cannot be used as a basis for an action for defamation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Holmes v. Eddy
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.