455 F. Supp. 749 - McLaughlin v. Copeland’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Malpiede v. Townson (2001), Adams v. Peck (1980)
1 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1406 · 28 U.S.C. § 1441
Relies on Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Schaefer v. First National Bank of Lincolnwood · Rainier's Dairies v. Raritan Valley Farms, Inc. · Cohen v. Illinois Institute of Technology · Clark v. Universal Builders, 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the policy, which in defamation actions affords an absolute privilege or immunity to statements made in judicial and quasi-judicial proceedings is really to mean anything then we must not permit its circumvention by affording an almost equally unrestricted action under a different label.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) A confederation or combination of two or more persons; (2) An unlawful act done in furtherance of the conspiracy; and (3) Actual damage.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The gravamen of an action in civil conspiracy is not the conspiracy itself but the underlying wrong which would be actionable absent the conspiracy.” (Applying Maryland law).”
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.