Levine v. CMP Publications, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
738 F.2d 660 · 1984
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Lino Celle Radio Mindanao Network Usa Inc v. Filipino Reporter Enterprises Inc Libertito Pelayo (2000), Hepps v. Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. (1984)
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Texas law, in accordance with Gertz, defines the level of fault a private defamation plaintiff must prove in order to recover from a publisher as negligence, meaning the publisher knew or should have known the article No. 17AP-660 10 was false and that the content of the article would warn a reasonably prudent editor of its defamatory potential.”
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.