586 F. Supp. 896 - Bolduc v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Roberts v. Saylor · Dawson v. Associates Financial Services Co. of Kansas, Inc. · Wood Bros. Homes, Inc. v. Walker Adjustment Bureau
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The gravamen of an action for defamation is the damage to one's reputation in the community caused by the defamatory statement(g).”
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.