Lee v. Paulsen’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2014
9 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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Shinglemeyer v. Wright, 124 Mich. 230 , 82 N.W. 887, 890 (1900), illustrates this rationale. In a private conversation between the parties the defendant charged the plaintiff with stealing his wheel. Plaintiff called a policeman. When he came she told him that the defendant had accused her of stealing his wheel and, in effect, asked him to hear the defendant’s version. Defendant told the officer that the plaintiff had stolen his wheel. Plaintiff brought a slander action based upon the defendant’s statement to the officer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In regard to the statement by defendant in the presence of the officer Henry, it was not a publication for which the law gives a remedy. She herself solicited the statement, and sent for the officer for the express purpose of having the defendant repeat the statement in his presence. It would not have been stated to him except by her invitation.” Shinglemeyer v. Wright, supra [82 N.W.], at p. 890, starting at 3.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The reason for the imposition of the privilege when the plaintiff consents or requests the publication “is based upon the unwillingness of the courts to let the plaintiff ‘lay the foundation of a lawsuit for his own pecuniary gain.’ ” Id., 539 P.2d at 1080 (quoting Harper and James, The Law of Torts 400 (1956), and Richardson v. Gundy, 88 Kan. 47, 54 , 127 P. 533 536 (1912).”
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.