Bailey v. McGill’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably Sutton v. Duke (1970), 85 N.C. App. 669 - Harris v. NCNB National Bank of North Carolina (1987)
9 federal appellate · 58 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 Barnette v. Woody · Jarman v. Offutt · Mezullo v. Maletz · McKinney v. City of High Point · Fisher and Fisher v. Payne
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a defamatory statement made by a witness in the due course of a judicial proceeding, which is material to the inquiry, is absolutely privileged, and cannot be made the basis of an action for libel or slander, even though the testimony is given with express malice and knowledge of its falsity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““---The pertinent affidavits made in this proceeding by direction of the Clerk by Drs. Kenneth H. McGill and Thomas H. Wright, Jr., were absolutely privileged, even if made maliciously or in bad faith.---””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hurley v. Towne
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.