58 Wis. 2d 359 - DiMiceli v. Klieger’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2004 · most notably 98 Wis. 2d 130 - Prahl v. Brosamle (1980), 103 Wis. 2d 465 - Fields Foundation, Ltd. v. Christensen (1981)
13 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 Lathan v. Journal Co. · Frinzi v. Hanson · 15 Wis. 2d 452 - Martin v. Outboard Marine Corp. · 54 Wis. 2d 155 - Marshall v. Miles · 30 Wis. 2d 452 - Ranous v. Hughes
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As to judicial proceedings, it is true that defamatory-words published or spoken by parties, witnesses and counsel in judicial proceedings are thus privileged when the statements bear a proper relationship to the issues. And such absolute privilege has been extended to quasi- judicial proceedings, including petition to a governor for removal of a sheriff, town board proceedings concerning a tavern license, a complaint to the state real estate brokers’ board.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““... if it tends so to harm the reputation of another as to lower him in the estimation of the community or to deter third persons from associating or dealing with him.” The test is whether the communication is capable of such meaning. If reasonable men might differ as to whether a communication is defamatory, the question is for the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[S]uch absolute privilege has been extended to quasi-judicial proceedings, including. . .town board proceedings concerning a tavern license.”
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.