Elmer v. Coplin’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Smith v. OUR LADY OF LAKE HOSP. (1994), 935 So. 2d 669 - Kennedy v. Sheriff of East Baton Rouge (2006)
1 federal appellate · 31 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 390 So. 2d 196 - Cangelosi v. SCHWEGMANN BROS., ETC. · Madison v. Bolton · Howard L. Makofsky, Jr. v. Raymond C. Cunningham, II · 146 So. 2d 723 - Toomer v. Breaux · 316 So. 2d 517 - Carter v. Catfish Cabin
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. Made in good faith; 2. Regarding a subject matter to which the person communicating has an interest or in reference to which he has a duty, i.e., there is an interest to be upheld; 3. Limited in scope to the interest to be upheld; 4. Made on the proper occasion; 5. Published in a proper manner; and 6. Published to proper parties only.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"have a tendency to deprive a person of the benefits of public confidence or injure him in his occupation or have a natural tendency to injure the person's reputation. When the words themselves have those results, even without considering extrinsic facts and surrounding circumstances they are defamatory per se. Words which impute a crime to another are defamatory per se. So are words that tend to adversely affect the person's business or profession. When words themselves have a natural tendency to injure a person and his occupation or to injure his reputation, even without considering extrinsic facts or surrounding circumstances, they are defamatory per se." Elmer v. Coplin, 485 So.2d 171, 176-77 (La.App. 2nd Cir), writ denied, 489 So.2d 246 (La.1986).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“so as to lower him in the estimation of the community or to deter others from associating with him.”
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.