Sharon v. Time, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Knievel v. ESPN (2005), Herbert v. Lando (1986)
9 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Finch v. Connor · Mobil Alaska Pipeline Co. v. United States · Rinaldi v. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court may not ... interfere with the jury's role by treating as nondefamatory a statement that a reasonable juror may fairly read in context as defamatory.”
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.