Kidder v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 626 So. 2d 345 - Sassone v. Elder (1993), Nevada Independent Broadcasting Corp. v. Allen (1983)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 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 · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · St. Amant v. Thompson · Podell v. United States · Mashburn v. Collin
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.
“with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n order for plaintiff to be successful on the threshold issue of summary judgment, he must come forth with strong evidence, convincingly clear evidence, that the defendant either knew the statements published were false or that he had reckless disregard of whether they were false or not. Otherwise, if plaintiff is allowed to escape summary judgment by simply a minimum showing, he has thus effectively invoked the `chilling effect of trial' doctrine.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"... not on the basis of an evaluation of sworn testimony at a trial (after full opportunity to rebut accusations) but rather on the basis of information available to the [news personnel] at the time of publication."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.