Lindeman v. Lesnick’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “Absolute privilege, sometimes called judicial privilege, is broad in scope and applies to communications made in proceedings pending in a court or before a quasi-judicial body .... If the communication is made in such a judicial proceeding, it need only be relevant and pertinent to the case to be protected by the privilege .... The reason for the rule of absolute privilege in judicial proceedings is to encourage unrestricted speech in litigation.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Donner v. Rubin · 156 F. Supp. 3d 739 - Daniczek v. Spencer

2. “[T]he maker of an absolutely privileged communication is accorded complete immunity from liability even though the communication is made maliciously and with knowledge that it is false.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Isle of Wight County v. Nogiec

3. “permit[ting] defamatory communications to be made with impunity merely upon an assertion that litigation might be subsequently initiated.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mansfield v. BERNABEI