Leers v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
12 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Dairy Stores, Inc. v. Sentinel Publishing Co. (1986), Kotlikoff v. the Community News (1982)
12 district · 54 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 Earl v. Winne · Jacobs v. Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. · King v. Patterson · Rogers v. Courier Post Co. · Brogan v. Passaic Daily News
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * false defamatory words, written and published, injurious to the reputation of another or exposing him to hatred, contempt or ridicule or subjecting him to a loss of the good will and confidence entertained towards him by others * * *,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) must be based on facts truly stated, and (b) must not contain imputations of corrupt or dishonourable motives on the person whose conduct or work is criticised, save in so far as such imputations are warranted by the facts, and (c) must be the honest expression of the writer's real opinion; and if the comment complies with these conditions, it is fair comment, .... [ Leers v. Green, 24 N.J. 239, 254-255 (1957)] Moreover, fair comment”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Generally, the fair-comment privilege provides a defense to a libel or slander action when `the words in question are a fair comment on a matter of public interest or concern,'”
1 later decision 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.