484 So. 2d 603 - Zambrano v. Devanesan’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2018
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 20 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 California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp. · Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner · 412 So. 2d 461 - Swartz v. Swartz · 359 So. 2d 430 - Wackenhut Corp. v. Canty · Freeman v. Flake
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Pure opinion is based upon facts that the communicator sets forth in a publication, or that are otherwise known or available to the reader or the listener as a member of the public. Mixed opinion is based upon facts regarding a person or his conduct that are neither stated in the publication nor assumed to exist by a party exposed to the communication. Rather the communicator implies that a concealed or undisclosed set of defamatory facts would confirm his opinion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“An important factor in the process of analyzing a comment is determining whether the speaker accurately presented the underlying facts of the situation before making the allegedly defamatory remarks ... [W]here the speaker or writer neglects to provide the audience with an adequate factual foundation prior to engaging in the offending discourse, liability may arise.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The determination whether a statement is fact or opinion is a question of law for resolution by the court. Moreover, an appellate court may make the determination of opinion versus fact on review.”
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.