Castine v. Castine’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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

1. “In determining whether or not the communication was qualifiedly privileged, regard must be had to the occasion and to the relationship of the parties. When one has an * interest in the subject matter of a communication, and the person (or persons) to whom it is made has a corresponding interest, every communication honestly made, in order to protect such common interest, is privileged by reason of the occasion. The statement, however, must be such as the occasion warrants, and must be made in good faith to protect the interests of the one who makes it and the persons to whom it is addressed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kunst v. Loree

2. “Substantial truth must be proven as to each individual statement [appellant] made, not as to the contents of the letters he sent as a whole.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kunst v. Loree

3. “[d]efamation does not focus on the hurt to the defamed parties' feelings, but on the injury to their reputations.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kunst v. Loree