Tomson v. Stephan’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
September 1997
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Jacobellis v. Ohio · Norris v. State of Alabama · Time, Inc. v. Firestone
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.
“A conditional privilege exists ... when the person making the publication reasonably believes that his interest in his own reputation has been unlawfully invaded by another person and that the defamatory matter that he publishes about the other is reasonably necessary to defend himself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.