698 So. 2d 749 - Bell v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2017
19 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 Time, Inc. v. Firestone · 591 So. 2d 342 - Schroeder v. Board of Sup'rs · 390 So. 2d 196 - Cangelosi v. SCHWEGMANN BROS., ETC. · 626 So. 2d 345 - Sassone v. Elder · 526 So. 2d 1101 - Brannan v. Wyeth Laboratories, Inc.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so as to lower him in the estimation of the community or to deter others from associating with him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“statements between employees, made within the course and scope of their employment, are not statements communicated or publicized to third persons so as to constitute a publication.”
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.