Norman v. Borison’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Police Commissioner v. Dowling (1977), O'Brien & Gere Engineers, Inc. v. City of Salisbury (2016)
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 21 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 Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Hansberry v. Lee · Marchesi v. Franchino · Rosenberg v. Helinski · Keys v. Chrysler Credit Corp.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e assess the context of the statement by asking, among other things: what was the overall or general reason for the instrument or letter (but not the motive of the challenged statement itself, see English rule); what was the [party] doing when he or she made the statement; and to whom did he or she make the statement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'(1) that the defendant made a defamatory statement to a third person, (2) that the statement was false, (3) that the defendant was legally at fault in making the statement, and (4) that the plaintiff thereby suffered harm.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the nature of the public function of the proceeding and (2) the adequacy of procedural safeguards which will minimize the occurrence of defamatory statements.”
2 later decisions 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.