32 Ill. App. 2d 471 - Larson v. Doner’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Arlington Heights National Bank v. Arlington Heights Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n (1967), 64 Ill. 2d 1 - Blair v. Walker (1976)
3 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
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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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Communications absolutely privileged are those so much to the public interest that the informer should speak out his mind fully and fearlessly so that all actions in respect of words thus spoken are absolutely forbidden, even though it be alleged that the words were spoken falsely, knowingly and with express malice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weisberg v. Rafael
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.