Mason v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2001
3 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Kleeberg v. Sipser
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The ‘single instance’ rule has application to charges which imply that plaintiff is unfit to carry on his profession or calling. In essence it is that a charge that plaintiff in a single instance was guilty of a mistake, impropriety or other unprofessional conduct does not imply that he is generally unfit (Twiggar v. Ossining Print. & Pub. Co., 161 App.Div. 718 , 146 N.Y.S. 529 ; Amelkin v. Commercial Trading Co., 23 A.D.2d 830 , 259 N.Y.S.2d 396 ). But the rule is quite otherwise where the deviation from professional conduct shows a lack of character or a total disregard of professional ethics (November v. Time, Inc., 13 N.Y.2d 175 , 244 N.Y.S.2d 309 , 194 N.E.2d 126 ). Then the words would certainly injure him in his professional capacity and are libelous per se (Kleeberg v. Sipser, 265 N.Y. 87 , 191 N.E. 845 ).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“where the deviation from professional conduct shows a lack of character or a total disregard of professional ethics”
1 later decision 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.