Greening v. Klamen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 state decisions

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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “As a general rule, false words which tend to prejudice the person spoken of in his business, profession, office, occupation, or employment, are actionable without proof of special damages if they affect him in such calling in a manner that may, as a necessary consequence, or does, as a natural consequence, prevent him from deriving therefrom that pecuniary reward which, probably he might have obtained. The words must impute a want of knowledge, skill, capacity, or fitness to perform or discharge the duties of a profession, trade, business or employment, or, stated another way, to be actionable per se the words must be defamatory of the plaintiff in such calling in that they impute fraud, want of integrity or misconduct in the line of his calling.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Arthur v. Jablonow

2. “enlarge upon any common law obligations of competence and fiduciary obligation that may exist ... by imposing liability for [an] alleged negligent breach of Disciplinary Rules”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 5 F. Supp. 2d 1023 - Chrysler Corp. v. Carey

3. “`where the breach amounts to an independent, willful tort and there are proper allegations of malice, wantonness or oppression.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Comerio v. Beatrice Foods Co.