Joftes v. Kaufman’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably 334 Pa. Super. 295 - Agriss v. Roadway Express, Inc. (1984), 340 Pa. Super. 253 - Gordon v. Lancaster Osteopathic Hospital Ass'n (1985)
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 16 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 Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Republic Steel Corp. v. Maddox · Linn v. United Plant Guard Workers of America, Local 114 · General Motors Corp. v. Mendicki · Henthorn v. Western Maryland Railway Co.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]otices of dismissal for cause which are contemplated by a collective bargaining agreement and which are published by the employer only to those with a legitimate interest in the subject matter may not be made the subject of an action in libel, regardless of whether the allegations of cause are true or false and regardless of the actual motive behind the dismissal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“grounds for the privilege, of course, do not exist where the employer publishes the notice containing the grounds for dismissal to persons without a legitimate job-related interest in receiving it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“peaceable disposition of such grievance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kloch v. Ratcliffe
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.