406 So. 2d 185 - Schaefer v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Strada v. Connecticut Newspapers, Inc. (1984), 626 So. 2d 345 - Sassone v. Elder (1993)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 43 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Garrison v. State of Louisiana · Henry v. Collins · Madison v. Bolton · 11 Mass. App. Ct. 602 - Mihalik v. Duprey
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“); Schaefer v. Lynch, 406 So.2d 185, 188 (La.1981) (“[T]ruthful statements which carry a defamatory implication can be actionable. However, that is only true in the case of private citizens and private affairs.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where public officers and public affairs are concerned, there can be no libel by innuendo.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Since a trial court's action in overruling a motion for judgment on the pleadings, or for summary judgment, is merely an interlocutory judgment causing no irreparable injury, it cannot be appealed, except under the appeal from the final judgment rendered in the case.”
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.