Dominguez v. Babcock’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2014
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 16 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on St. Amant v. Thompson · Abrahamsen v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Burns v. McGraw-Hill Broadcasting Co., Inc. · Hatfield v. Barnes · DiLeo v. Koltnow
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e now determine that one who publishes defamatory or false material loses the qualified privilege ... if he publishes the material with malice, that is, knowing the matter to be false, or acts in reckless disregard as to its veracity as defined by the Restatement (Second) of Torts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A qualified privilege exists for communications by a party with a legitimate interest or duty to persons having a corresponding interest or duty in communications promoting legitimate individual, group, or public interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McIntyre v. Jones“'a high degree of awareness for probable falsity or serious doubt as to the truth of the statement.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McIntyre v. Jones
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.