521 So. 2d 449 - McManus v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 2014
1 district · 3 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 Serbian Eastern Orthodox Diocese for United States and Canada v. Milivojevich · Joiner v. Weeks · State v. Brown · State v. Merritt · American General Investment Corporation v. St. Elmo Lands
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To allow defamation suits to be litigated to the fullest extent against members of a religious board who are merely discharging the duty entrusted to them by the church could have potentially chilling effect on the performance of those duties ...”
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.