52 Wis. 2d 173 - Dalton v. Meister’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably 97 Wis. 2d 260 - Wangen v. Ford Motor Co. (1980), 206 Wis. 2d 158 - Management Computer Services, Inc. v. Hawkins, Ash, Baptie & Co. (1996)
2 federal appellate · 44 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Roth v. United States · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · Stromberg v. People of State of California · Rosenbloom v. Metromedia, 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“follow inevitably from defamatory imputation, and . .. are often recoverable without proof of injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.