Clark v. McGee’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2017
4 federal appellate · 1 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.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“absolutely immune from liability for allegedly defamatory remarks related to his responsibilities and made during the course of the performance of his duties. This does not mean, however, that absolute immunity attaches to every statement made by a[n official]. Both the subject of the statement and the circumstances in which it is made are of importance in determining whether a particular statement was privileged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Neu v. Corcoran
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.