Mohler v. Houston’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2015
2 district · 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 Brown v. Shimabukuro · Young v. Young · Geier v. Jordan · Williams v. Williams · Mohler v. Mohler
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he communication need not be relevant in the legal sense; the term is very liberally construed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“absolutely privileged if they have enough appearance of connection with the case ... so that a reasonable man might think them relevant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Arneja v. Gildar“is protected by an absolute privilege to publish false and defamatory matter of another”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Arneja v. Gildar
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.