Boice v. Unisys Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
50 F.3d 1145 · 1995
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2019
9 federal appellate · 2 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 Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Briscoe v. W · Swint v. Chambers County Commission · Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. v. Mayacamas Corp.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The difference between the two is relevant only when the party asserting the privilege has acted in bad faith. The holder of a qualified privilege may be sued for defamation if he published the statements with malice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]ne who enjoys the absolute privilege ... may not be sued no matter how malicious his state of mind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“One who is required by law to publish defamatory matter is absolutely privileged to publish it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilkinson v. Russell
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.