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382 So. 2d 279 - Clements v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
July 2007
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2007

1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions

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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 Canter v. Koehring Company · 146 So. 2d 723 - Toomer v. Breaux · Pechon v. National Corporation Service · Martin v. Markley · Fitzpatrick v. Daily States Publishing Co.

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

  1. “"In this context good faith means a statement made with reasonable grounds for believing it to be true. Only when lack of such reasonable grounds is found can it be said the person uttering the statement is actuated by malice or ill will."”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[A] publication enjoys a qualified or conditional privilege if made (a) in good faith; (b) on any subject matter in which the person communicating has an interest or in reference to which he has a duty; and, (c) to a person having a corresponding interest or duty.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “any publication... to anyone not legally privileged to receive such communications.”
    1 later decision 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.