238 F. Supp. 437 - Weider v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2015
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 Keogh v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. · Basista v. Weir · Keogh v. Chicago & N W Ry Co · Hilbert v. Roth · Cosgrove Studio & Camera Shop, Inc. v. Pane
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court instructed the jury that such words on their face were capable of a libelous meaning. This was in accordance with the Restatement, Torts, § 614(1) which had been cited with approval by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court as defining the function of the court in libel eases, such as here, where ‘the words are defamatory on their face.’ * * * (citations omitted). The jury then was instructed that whether the words did in fact convey a libelous meaning to persons to whom they were communicated was for the jury to determine. This was in accordance with Restatement, Torts, § 614(2), which defines the function of the jury. Bocchicchio v. Curtis Publishing Co., E.D.Pa.1962, 203 F.Supp. 403 ; Bauseman v. Norristown Herald, Inc., 1945, 351 Pa. 634, 643 , 41 A.2d 736 . The function of the jury in determining whether a communication, capable of a defamatory meaning, was so understood by its recipient, would be a finding with respect to a plaintiff’s burden of proof as set forth in 12 P.S. § 1584a(l) (d, e), which appears to be an adoption of the Restatement, Torts § 613.” (p. 441).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it * * * there has been a breach of duty or infraction or invasion of a right, but no real, substantial or serious loss or injury has been established.” Stevenson v. Economy Bank of Ambridge, 413 Pa. 442, 455 , 197 A. 2d 721, 727 , 4 A.L.R.3d 1450 (1964).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`Actual' damages are synonymous with compensatory damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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