Carpenter v. King’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
3 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Erickson v. Pardus · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the defendant made a false and defamatory statement concerning the plaintiff; (2) that the defendant published the statement without privilege to a third party; (3) that the defendant’s fault in publishing the statement amounted to at least negligence; and (4) either that the statement was actionable as a matter of law irrespective of special harm or that its publication caused the plaintiff special harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Falsity and defamatory meaning 'are distinct elements of ... defamation and are considered separately.' " Carpenter v. King , 792 F.Supp.2d 29 , 34 (D.D.C. 2011) (quoting White , 909 F.2d at 520 ). "The burden of proving falsity rests squarely on the plaintiff ... [who] must demonstrate either that the statement is factual and untrue, or an opinion based implicitly on facts that are untrue.”
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.