Ventetuolo v. Burke’s Empirical Analysis
596 F.2d 476 · 1979
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 16 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Brennan v. Hendrigan (1989), Beller v. Middendorf (1980)
27 federal appellate · 16 district · 8 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Perry v. Sindermann · Paul v. Davis · Bishop v. Wood · Arnett v. Kennedy
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““permits a person to escape liability for a false and defamatory statement made about another if the occasion for the publication is such that the publisher acting in good faith correctly or reasonably believes that he has a legal, moral or social duty to speak out, or that to speak out is necessary to protect either his own interests, or those of third persons, or certain interests of the public.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There are two ways in which appellant’s constitutional liberty interest could be implicated. First, if Martinez made “any charge against him that might seriously damage his standing and association in (the) community.” Second, whether Martinez “imposed on him a stigma or other disability that foreclosed his freedom to take advantage of other employment opportunities.””
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.