Kleizer v. Symmes’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently June 1976
3 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 Lytle v. Lytle · O'Donaghue v. M'Govern · Jarvis v. Hatheway · Coombs v. Rose
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He cannot shield himself, under the cover of church privilege, from an intentional and wilful attack upon another’s character, under pretence of inviting a religious inquiry into the charges he makes. ... It thus becomes a question of fact for the jury to decide, whether the defendant in preferring the charge was governed by a sense of Christian duty and his obligations to the rules of the church, or whether those pure and commendable principles were disregarded by him, and an evil and malignant desire to degrade and injure his neighbor permitted to control his action.””
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.