James v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably DeSantis v. Wackenhut Corp. (1990), Otis Engineering Corp. v. Clark (1983)
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 101 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 City of Houston v. Clear Creek Basin Authority · Nardis Sportswear v. Simmons · Reagan v. Guardian Life Insurance · Bowles v. Bourdon · Runge v. Franklin
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“doctors' communications to the court of their diagnosis of Mrs. James' mental condition, regardless of how negligently made, cannot serve as the basis for a defamation action,....”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“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.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The privilege extends to any statement made by the judge, jurors, counsel, parties or witnesses, and attaches to all aspects of the proceedings....”
4 later decisions 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.