707 So. 2d 921 - Morse v. Ripken’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2016
1 district · 7 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 Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · 400 So. 2d 52 - From v. Tallahassee Democrat, Inc. · Keller v. Miami Herald Publishing Co. · 450 So. 2d 293 - Hay v. Independent Newspapers, Inc. · 438 So. 2d 923 - Eastern Air Lines, Inc. v. Gellert
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Pure opinion is based upon facts that the communicator sets forth in a publication, or that are otherwise known or available to the reader or the listener as a member of the public. Mixed opinion is based upon facts regarding a person or his conduct that are neither stated in the publication nor assumed to exist by a party exposed to the communication. Rather the communicator implies that a concealed or undisclosed set of defamatory facts would confirm his opinion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The law draws a distinction between pure expressions of opinion, which are constitutionally protected, and mixed expressions of opinion, which are not.”
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.