Hecht v. Levin’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably M.J. DiCorpo, Inc. v. Sweeney (1994), Snyder v. Ag Trucking, Inc. (1995)
7 federal appellate · 77 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 Hahn v. Kotten · Surace v. Wuliger · Ramstead v. Morgan · Smith v. Kates
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A statement made in a judicial proceeding enjoys an absolute privilege against a defamation action as long as the allegedly defamatory statement is reasonably related to the proceeding in which it appears.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“Publication of defamatory matter is its communication intentionally or by a negligent act to one other than the person defamed.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage““1. A complaint filed with the grievance committee of a local bar association is part of a judicial proceeding. “2. A statement made in the course of an attorney disciplinary proceeding enjoys an absolute privilege against a civil action based thereon as long as the statement bears some reasonable relation to the proceeding. (Surace v. Wuliger [1986], 25 Ohio St.3d 229 , 25 OBR 288, 495 N.E.2d 939 , approved and followed.)””
3 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.