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← 34 Cal. App. 4th 607 - Passman v. Torkan

34 Cal. App. 4th 607 - Passman v. Torkan’s Empirical Analysis

1995

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
2
states following
January 2007
most recently cited

23 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 57 Cal. 2d 450 - Auto Equity Sales, Inc. v. Superior Court · 50 Cal. 3d 205 - Silberg v. Anderson · 46 Cal. 2d 375 - Albertson v. Raboff · 4 Cal. 4th 1187 - Rubin v. Green · 38 Cal. 3d 355 - Ribas v. Clark

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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A privileged publication ... is one made: (a) In the proper discharge of an official duty. (b) In any (1) legislative proceeding, (2) judicial proceeding; (3) in any other official proceeding authorized by law, or (4) in the initiation or course of any other proceeding authorized by law .... (c) In a communication, without malice, to a person interested therein, (1) by one who is also interested, or (2) by one who stands in such a relation to the person interested as to afford a reasonable ground for supposing the motive for the communication to be innocent, or (3) who is requested by the person interested to give the information.... (d)(1) By a fair and true report ... of (A) a judicial, (B)legislative, or (C) or other public official proceeding .... (e) By a fair and true report of (1) the proceedings of a public meeting ... or (2) the publication of the matter complained of was for the public benefit.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Maaskant v. Peck (In Re Peck) · Begier v. Strom
  2. “test the outer limits of `relevancy' to determine when a given communication may be deemed `extraneous to the action.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. RECORP PARTNERS v. Gust Rosenfeld, PLC

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.