Jarman v. Offutt’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably 85 N.C. App. 669 - Harris v. NCNB National Bank of North Carolina (1987), Barnette v. Woody (1955)
9 federal appellate · 73 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 Thomas-Yelverton Co. v. State Capital Life Insurance · Ramsey v. . Cheek · Hedgecock v. Jefferson Standard Life Insurance · Harshaw v. . Harshaw · Severt v. . Lyall
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] defamatory statement made in due course of a judicial proceeding is absolutely privileged and will not support a civil action for defamation, even though it be made with express malice,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[J]udicial proceedings are not restricted to trials, but include[ ] every proceeding of a judicial nature before a court or official clothed with judicial or quasi judicial power ...”
2 later decisions 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.