626 So. 2d 345 - Sassone v. Elder’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 113 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Smith v. OUR LADY OF LAKE HOSP. (1994), 685 So. 2d 691 - Hayes v. Autin (1996)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 113 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`that the defendant, with actual malice or other fault, published a false statement with defamatory words which caused plaintiff damages.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[1]n order to survive a motion for summary . judgment, a defamation plaintiff must produce evidence of sufficient quality and quantity to demonstrate that he likely will be able to meet his burden of proof at trial. Without such evidence, there is no genuine issue of material fact, and summary judgment should be granted. Id., at p. 351.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“there is no genuine issue of material fact if the nonmoving party cannot come forward at the summary judgment stage with evidence of such sufficient quantity and quality for a reasonable juror to find the party can satisfy his substantive evidentiary burden.”
5 later decisions 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.