Buckley v. McGraw-Hill, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
12 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2020
12 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1404 · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on International Shoe Co. v. Washington · World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson · Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Shaffer v. Heitner
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the instant case, the individual defendants’ allegedly tortious conduct was aimed specifically at plaintiff. This conduct caused the type of injury that occurs wherever the defamation was distributed. The individual defendants, all of whom had a direct hand in the writing and publication of the articles in question for a nationally distributed magazine, must reasonably anticipate being haled into court in a libel action where injury to the targeted plaintiff can be expected to occur, which in this case included New Hampshire.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Faigin v. Kelly“The tort of libel is generally held to occur wherever the offending material is circulated. The reputation of the libel victim may suffer harm even in a State in which he has hitherto been anonymous. The communication of the libel may create a negative reputation among the residents of a jurisdiction where the plaintiff’s previous reputation was, however small, at least unblemished.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to avoid harassment of defendants and ensure the 2At oral argument, RTH pointed out language in Butler that "[a] motion to transfer venue will be granted if the moving party makes 'a clear showing that a balancing of conveniences strongly favors the granting of a motion.'”
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.