Rambo v. Cohen’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Ward v. Zelikovsky (1994), Wilder v. Cody Country Chamber of Commerce (1994)
1 federal appellate · 54 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bullock v. United States · Town of Mashpee v. Mashpee Tribe · Yeager v. Local Union 20, Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen & Helpers of America · Moriarty v. Lippe · 311 Pa. Super. 50 - Rybas v. Wapner
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“tend[s] to harm a person's reputation by lowering the person in the community's estimation or deterring third persons from dealing or associating with the person.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“entitled to presumed damages 'as a natural and probable consequence' of the per se defamation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is well-settled throughout this country that obnoxious remarks, even remarks much more obnoxious than those Cohn is alleged to have made here, are not defamatory per se, and will not lead to liability without proof of special damages. See, e.g., Raible v. Newsweek, Inc. (W.D.Pa.1972), 341 F.Supp. 804, 807 ("to call a person a bigot or other appropriate name descriptive of his political, racial, religious, economic or sociological philosophies gives no rise to an action for libel"); Ceravolo [v. Brown, 364 So.2d 1155 (Ala.1978) ] ("dead beat" and "erook"); Moriarty v. Lippe (1972), 162 Conn. 371 , 294 A.2d 326 (defendant called plaintiff police officer a "clown," "big fat ape," "smart aleck," "big fat oaf," and a "stupid son of a biteh"); McGuire v. Jankiewicz (1972), 8 IIl.App.3d 319, 290 N.E.2d 675 (defendant insurance agent told plaintiff attorney's client that plaintiff was an asshole); Gomes [v. Hug, 7 Kan.App.2d 603 , 645 P.2d 916 (1982) ] (fucking Mexican greaser" and "fucking spic"); Bradshaw [v. Swag-erty, 1 Kan.App2d 213, 563 P.2d 511 (1977)] ("nigger" and "bastard"; Sampson [v. Rumsey, 1 Kan.App.2d 191 , 563 P.2d 506 (1977) ] ("son of a bitch"); Ferlito v. (1982), La.App., 419 So.2d 102, 105 , writ denied, 422 So.2d 157 ("[plrofane language, although disgusting and uncouth, is not defamatory per se."); Harris v. Levy (1977), La. App., 358 So.2d 1065 ("son of a bitch"); Hansen v. Dethridge (1946), N.Y. City Ct., 67 NY.S8.2d 168; Ledsinger v. Bur-meister (1982), 11”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lovings v. Thomas
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.