Lamb v. Rizzo’s Empirical Analysis
391 F.3d 1133 · 2004
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Fogle v. Pierson (2006), Price v. Philpot (2005)
8 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Haines v. Kerner · Salve Regina College v. Russell · Monitor Patriot Co. v. Roy · Phelps v. Hamilton
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a plaintiffs reputation is so diminished at the time of publication of the allegedly defamatory material that only nominal damages at most could be awarded because the person’s reputation was not capable of sustaining further harm, the plaintiff is deemed to be libel-proof as a matter of law and is not permitted to burden a defendant with a trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The district court did not give notice of its intent to convert [the defendant's] Rule 12(b)(6) motion, but [the plaintiff] does not and cannot claim that the absence of notice prejudiced him”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not only failed to object to the exhibits attached to [the defendant's] motion to dismiss, but [he] also filed his own exhibits in response.”
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.