273 So. 2d 774 - Wolfson v. Kirk’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 159 Cal. App. 4th 1154 - Krinsky v. Doe 6 (2008), Lipsig v. Ramlawi (2000)
4 federal appellate · 28 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 Layne v. Tribune Co. · Ross v. Gore · Cooper v. the Miami Herald Publishing Co. · Commander v. Pedersen · 66 So. 2d 495 - Campbell v. Jacksonville Kennel Club
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he plaintiff was accused of being drunk on the job and that accusation was repeated to his manager and other employees ...; patients were told that a doctor’s work quality was poor and that his procedures required subsequent corrective work, which impugned the doctor’s professional competence and fitness as a surgeon ...; a former supervisor told a prospective employer that an interviewee was “bad news,” that she was prone to file frivolous sexual harassment charges, and that “you don’t want her in your company,” all of which suggested conduct incompatible with the proper exercise of her employment duties ...; a lawyer stated that “if you wanted to influence Judge Hoch, you should send men in tight shorts before him,” thereby suggesting that the judge’s official duties could be improperly influenced and imputing to him conduct or a condition incompatible with the proper exercise of his judgeship....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Defamation (libel and slander) may generally be defined as the unprivileged publication of false statements which naturally and proximately result in injury to another.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`might have taken it to mean that the plaintiff was a person with whom commercial relations were undesirable.'”
2 later decisions 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.