Hotchner v. Castillo-Puche’s Empirical Analysis
551 F.2d 910 · 1977
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 12 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 158 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably DiFolco v. MSNBC Cable L.L.C. (2010), Ollman v. Evans (1984)
55 federal appellate · 12 district · 52 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · St. Amant v. Thompson · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · Time, Inc. v. Hill
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 158 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Liability for libel may attach ... when a negative characterization of a person is coupled with a clear but false implication that the author is privy to facts about the person that are unknown to the general reader.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where a passage is incapable of independent verification, and where there are no convincing indicia of unreliability, publication of the passage cannot constitute reckless disregard for truth.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any risk that full and vigorous exposition of opinion ... may be stifled must be given great weight”
3 later decisions 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.