Downing v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 268th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on City of Keller v. Wilson · Dow Chemical Co. v. Francis · Sterner v. Marathon Oil Co. · Randall's Food Markets, Inc. v. Johnson · Arthur Andersen & Co. v. Perry Equipment Corp.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“damages are presumed to flow from the nature of the defamation itself; thus, such an action can be sustained even without specific proof of the existence and amount of harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.