Levesque v. Doocy’s Empirical Analysis
560 F.3d 82 · 2009
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2025
5 federal appellate · 10 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. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may be found where a publisher fabricates an account, makes inherently improbable allegations, relies on a 3 It is less clear that the Conformis system's FDA clearance demonstrates that its effectiveness has been established. The FDA clearance process evaluates the similarity of a new device to a relevant existing device, and the resulting assessment is, therefore,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here must be sufficient evidence to permit the conclusion that the defendant in fact entertained serious doubts as to the truth of his publication. Publishing with such doubts shows reckless disregard for truth or falsity and demonstrates actual malice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“direct evidence of actual malice is rare,”
2 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.