281 Pa. Super. 521 - Itri v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 334 Pa. Super. 295 - Agriss v. Roadway Express, Inc. (1984), 315 Pa. Super. 135 - Spain v. Vicente (1983)
23 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 Corabi v. Curtis Publishing Co. · Otto v. American Mutual Insurance · International Union of Operating Engineers v. Linesville Construction Co. · 256 Pa. Super. 427 - Vitteck v. Washington Broadcasting Co. · Commonwealth v. Austin
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although it is preferable that the exact [defamatory] words be stated in the complaint, often the exact words are not known. However, although the exact words need not be stated, the complaint must specify the substance of the spoken words; the purport of the spoken words is necessary. [When] the complaint does not specify the words in substance used by the defendant, it is defective. It is also defective for failure to identify any persons to whom the alleged statements were made. 11”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In an action for slander the complaint is sufficient if it contains the substance of the spoken words.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.