Rotkiewicz v. Sadowsky’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 17 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably 42 Cal. 4th 278 - Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training v. Superior Court (2007), Noonan v. Staples, Inc. (2009)
10 federal appellate · 17 district · 30 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 · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · St. Amant v. Thompson
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here a position in government has such apparent importance that the public has an independent interest in qualifications and performance of the person who holds it, beyond the general public interest in the qualifications and performance of all government employees, ... the New York Times malice standards apply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In the context of defamation, the term ‘actual malice’ does not mean the defendant’s dislike of, hatred of, or ill will toward, the plaintiff. Rather, actual malice means that the ‘defamatory falsehood was published with knowledge that it was false or reckless disregard of whether it was false.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The primary purpose of the rule is to put the judge on notice of the issue, and the requirement of the rule may be satisfied in a variety of ways.”
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.