Perk v. Vector Resources Group, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 6 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Thompson Ex Rel. Thompson v. Skate America, Inc. (2001), Yeagle v. Collegiate Times (1998)
7 federal appellate · 6 district · 50 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 Bowman v. State Bank of Keysville · Chaves v. Johnson · Gazette, Inc. v. Harris · Carwile v. Richmond Newspapers, Inc. · Duggin v. Adams
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Impute the commission of a criminal offense involving moral turpitude; (2) Impute that a person is infected with some contagious disease; (3) Impute to a person unfitness to perform the duties of an office or employment; or (4) Prejudice a person in his or her profession or trade.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“prejudice a person in his or her profession or trade” are defamatory per se, and “a defamatory charge need not be made in direct terms; rather, it may be made 'by inference, implication!,] or insinuation.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although a defamatory statement may be inferred, a court may not 'extend the meaning of the words used beyond their ordinary and common acceptance.'”
2 later decisions 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.