Baum v. Gillman’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 2025
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 18 Utah 2d 70 - Western States Title Insurance Co. v. Warnock · Baum v. Gillman · Allred v. Cook · Nichols v. Daily Reporter Co.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o determine whether the complaint states a claim upon which relief can be granted, we must examine the complaint in light of the substantive law of [Utah] because this case arises under diversity jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when language is used concerning a person or his affairs which from its nature necessarily must, or presumably will, as its natural and proximate consequence, occasion him pecuniary loss.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“special damages to the plaintiff's reputation must be alleged and proved to have been the actual and natural result of the language used.”
1 later decision 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.