Falwell v. Flynt’s Empirical Analysis
797 F.2d 1270 · 1986
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2005
10 federal appellate · 7 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · Garrison v. State of Louisiana · Time, Inc. v. Hill
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“entitled to the same level of first amendment protection in the claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress that they received in [respondent's] claim for libel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We may reverse a jury verdict only when there is a complete absence of facts to support the conclusions reached by the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether [the ad's] publication was sufficiently outrageous to constitute intentional infliction of emotional distress.”
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.