28 Cal. App. 3d 27 - King v. Borges’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently October 2006 · most notably 32 Cal. 4th 350 - Hagberg v. California Federal Bank FSB (2004), 87 Cal. App. 3d 725 - Brody v. Montalbano (1978)
57 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 46 Cal. 2d 375 - Albertson v. Raboff · 21 Cal. 2d 822 - Washer v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n · 23 Cal. App. 3d 861 - Ascherman v. Natanson · Whelan v. Wolford · 253 Cal. App. 2d 55 - Mehling v. Schield
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The importance of providing to citizens free and open access to governmental agencies for the reporting of suspected illegal activity outweighs the occasional harm that might befall a defamed individual.”
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.