MacAulay v. Bryan’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 2008
2 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 40 Cal. App. 2d 348 - Noral v. Hearst Publications, Inc. · Hays v. American Defense Society, Inc. · Louisville Times v. Stivers · Talbot v. Mack
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is clear, under the law, that an individual may not, as a general rule, recover damages for defamation of a group or class of persons of which he is a member. Louisville Times v. Stivers, 252 Ky. 843 , 68 S.W.2d 411 , 97 A.L.R. 277 ; Noral v. Hearst Publications, 40 Cal.App.2d 348 , 104 P.2d 860 ; see annotation 97 A.L.R. 281 -292. When the group or class is large the defamatory matter must point to, or single out, the plaintiff as the person involved.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Webb v. Sessions
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.