Wehling v. Columbia Broadcasting System’s Empirical Analysis
721 F.2d 506 · 1983
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2016 · most notably Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, Inc. (1991), Gelb v. Royal Globe Insurance (1986)
18 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 287 · 28 U.S.C. § 1738
Relies on Allen v. McCurry · Bonniwell v. Beech Aircraft Corp. · Hicks v. Quaker Oats Co. · Johnson v. United States · Reimer v. Smith
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the issue at stake be identical to the one involved in the prior litigation; (2) that the issue has been actually litigated in the prior litigation; and (3) that the determination of the issue in the prior litigation has been a critical and necessary part of the judgment in that earlier action.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In Texas, a suit for defamation is personal to the one about whom statements are made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] statement that is substantially true is not defamatory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.