Picard v. Brennan’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Penobscot Indian Nation v. Key Bank (1997), Simon II v. Navon Simon II (1995)
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 12 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 Nichols v. Item Publishers, Inc. · Farrell v. Kramer · Boulet v. Beals · Fairbanks Publishing Company v. Pitka · Chapman v. Gannett
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.
“[D]efamatory language must be 'construed in the light of what might reasonably have been understood therefrom by the persons who [heard] it.' In interpreting the language, it is ... a question of ... the understanding of those to whom the words are addressed and of the natural and probable effect of the words on them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is not defamatory as a matter of law. The right to hire implies the right to fire, and therefore a statement that the latter right has been exercised by one's employer does not necessarily have a tendency to injure or discredit the employee who has been discharged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he mere fact of one's removal from office carries no imputation of dishonesty or lack of professional capacity. It is only when the publication contains an insinuation that the dismissal was for some misconduct that it becomes defamatory.”
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.