Madison v. Frazier’s Empirical Analysis
539 F.3d 646 · 2008
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · St. Amant v. Thompson · Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co. · Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the statement has a precise and readily understood meaning; (2) whether the statement is verifiable; and (3) whether the statement's literary or social context signals that it has factual content.”). . In Lent v. Huntoon, the Vermont Supreme Court repeatedly cited the Restatement (Second) of Torts with approval in discussing Vermont’s defamation law and adopted § 595 comment d (addressing a conditional privilege based upon legitimate business interests) as”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“certain factors may render defamatory statements nonactionable as a matter of law. For example, if a defendant’s statements are capable of an innocent, nondefa-matory construction, a plaintiff cannot maintain an action for defamation per se.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The existence of merely a scintilla of evidence in support of the non-moving party's position is insufficient; there must be evidence on which the jury could reasonably find for the non-moving party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.