Woods v. Helmi’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2024
4 federal appellate · 9 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 O'BARR v. Feist · Emmco Insurance Co. v. Beacon Mutual Indemnity Co. · 6 Smith & H. 413 - Freeman v. Dayton Scale Co. · Applewhite v. Memphis State University · Interstate Electric Co. v. Daniel
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by her employer, the Regional Medical Center (Center), in a report to two physician employees of a separate entity which provided necessary physician services for patients at the Center. In holding no publication occurred, the Tennessee Court of Appeals reasoned: 13 While many of the cases denying the existence of a publication speak in terms of corporations communicating to or with itself, it seems to this Court that more essential to the issue is the concept of”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“This" proper exchange of information should not be inhibited by the technical nicety that a person or persons who were in the “need to know” channel were employed by different corporate entities. The responsibilities and duties of the particular parties involved take precedent over the corporate entity that pays them their salaries. We consider this a distinction without a difference insofar as applying the [Freeman v. Dayton Scale Co., 159 Tenn. 413 , 19 S.W.2d 255 (1929) ] rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Washington v. Thomas“where [a] communication is made to a servant or business associate in the ordinary and natural course of business, there is no actionable [defamation].”
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.