Flynn v. Associated Press’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 12 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 31 Cal. 4th 1230 - Shively v. Bozanich (2003), 35 Mass. App. Ct. 820 - Pagliuca v. City of Boston (1994)
5 federal appellate · 12 district · 31 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 Calder v. Jones · Logarusic v. United States · Hendrickson v. Sears · 61 Ill. 2d 129 - Tom Olesker's Exciting World of Fashion, Inc. v. Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. · White v. Peabody Construction Co., Inc.
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“every fact which must eventually be proved in support of the claim . . .. Rather, notice is simply knowledge that an injury has occurred.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“‘The republisher of a defamatory statement ‘is subject to liability as if he had originally published it.’ ” Appleby v. Daily Hampshire Gazette, 395 Mass. 32, 36 (1985), and sources cited. Any future republication of the false statements complained of in this action could form the basis for a new cause of action against the republisher.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] cause of action accrues on the happening of an event likely to put the plaintiff on notice.”
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.