Reilly v. Associated Press’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 14 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Howell v. THE ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING COMPANY, LLC. (2010), Driscoll v. Board of Trustees (2007)
5 federal appellate · 14 district · 22 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 Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co. · Penson v. Ohio · Finch v. Connor · Indelicato v. United States · Eyal v. Helen Broadcasting Corp.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[distinguishing whether a challenged statement is one of fact or opinion has been characterized as a question of law ... if the statement' unambiguously constitutes either fact or opinion. Where, ... however, the allegedly [slanderous] remarks could have been understood by the average [listener] in either sense, the issue must be left to the jury’s determination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`A plaintiff may establish that the defendant's words were of and concerning the plaintiff by proving at least that the defendant was negligent in publishing words which reasonably could be interpreted to refer to the plaintiff.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A defamatory comment is made `of and concerning' the person to whom the reader or recipient, correctly or mistakenly but reasonably, understands it was intended to refer.”
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.