James v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
July 1982
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Reagan v. Guardian Life Insurance · Bailey v. McGill · Snyder v. Faget · Russell v. Clark · Dunbar v. Greenlaw
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A witness is absolutely privileged to publish defamatory matter concerning another in communications preliminary to a proposed judicial proceeding or as a part of a judicial proceeding in which he is testifying, if it has some relation to the proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. James v. Brown
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.