Teichner v. Bellan’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2022
2 federal appellate · 1 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 Ostrowe v. Lee · Andrews v. . Gardiner · McDaniel v. Crescent Motors, Inc. · 6 Smith & H. 413 - Freeman v. Dayton Scale Co. · Murphy v. JOHNSMANVILLE PRODUCTS CORPORATION
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There are decisions in some States that a communication of defamatory matter to an agent of the person defamed in response to an inquiry does not constitute a publication to a third person ... [b]ut the better view seems to us to be that taken in another line of cases, holding that the communication to the plaintiff's agent is a publication , even though the plaintiff's action may ultimately be defeated for other reasons. The agent is, in fact, a different entity from the principal; the communication to the agent is, in fact, a publication to a third person.”
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.