Evans v. Lawson’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 2005
4 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · St. Amant v. Thompson · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · Rosenblatt v. Baer · Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Assn., Inc. v. Bresler
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The rule seems to be that when the comment upon which the action is based is one of qualified privilege, then the question is not whether the charge is true or false, but only whether the privilege has been abused to the extent that there exists actual malice, or an utterance with knowledge of its falsity, or a complete and utter disregard for its truth or falseness." Evans v. Lawson (Va. 1972), 351 F. Supp. 279, 285 .”
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.