Hinkle v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 15 state decisions

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In support of the libel per quod.rule it is contended by some, and as partially stated by Justice Traynor, in MacLeod v. Tribune Publishing Co., 1959, 52 Cal.2d 536, 550 , 343 P.2d 36, 43-44 , that the per quod rule protects the news media from vexatious actions for trifling claims of libel. Prosser, More Libel Per Quod, supra, 79 Harv.L.Rev., at 1646 et seq. If there is merit to the argument it does not apply in Oregon because of our retraction statutes, ORS 30.150 et seq.” 417 P.2d at 589 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Reed v. Melnick

2. “In determining the defamatory character of language, the meaning of which is clear or otherwise determined, the social station of the parties in the community, the current standards of moral and social conduct prevalent therein, and the business, profession or calling of the parties are important factors. Thus an imputation may be defamatory as applied to one person at a given time and place, although it would not be derogatory of another person at a different time or in a different place.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Holtzscheiter v. Thomson Newspapers, Inc.

3. “be the product of initial inadvertence made difficult to dislodge by precedents based upon the initial inadvertence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Rowan, George