30 Ohio App. 3d 225 - Simmons v. Climaco’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on CRIBERG v. Raymond · 60 Cal. App. 3d 573 - Lerette v. Dean Witter Organization, Inc. · Surace v. Wuliger · 100 Ill. App. 3d 314 - Libco Corp. v. Adams · 122 Ohio St. 210 - Erie County Farmers' Ins. v. Crecelius
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n attorney has an absolute immunity against libel and slander action for statements made representing a client in the course of litigation, either in the pleadings, briefs, or in oral statements to the judge and jury, so long as the defamatory matter may possibly bear some relation to the judicial proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“applies only when the communication has some relation to a proceeding that is contemplated in good faith and under serious consideration. The bare possibility that the proceeding might be instituted is not to be used as a cloak to provide immunity for defamation when the possibility is not seriously considered.”
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.