Sauber v. Gliedman’s Empirical Analysis
283 F.2d 941 · 1960
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
March 1969
most recently cited
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Barr v. Matteo · Spalding v. Vilas · Gregoire v. Biddle · Howard v. Lyons · United States v. Stromberg
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the rule of the Barr case, privilege is not an attribute of a particular title or rank of office. The test of privilege is the relation of the conduct complained of to matters committed to the official’s control and supervision. A public statement may be privileged where the nature of the official’s duties requires that he be immune from private tort liability in respect to it in furtherance of the effective functioning of government. Privilege, therefore, is directly dependent upon the scope of power and discretion incident to the duty entrusted to the officer by delegation and re-delegation of authority from the highest to the lower levels of the governmental hierarchy.””
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.