Allen v. Ortez’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
6 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Winegar v. Froerer Corp. (1991), Pratt v. Nelson (2007)
6 district · 23 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 Green Acres Trust v. London · Circus Circus Hotels, Inc. v. Witherspoon · Madsen v. Borthick · Foil v. Ballinger · O'BARR v. Feist
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“free and open expression by all participants ... [that] will only occur if they are not inhibited by the risk of subsequent defamation suits.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Riddle v. Perry · Krouse v. Bower“during or in the course of a judicial proceeding”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n libel cases, the one-year period of section 78-12-29(4) does not begin to run until the libel is known or is reasonably discoverable by the plaintiff. Whether plaintiffs knew or should have known of the letter to the mayor is a question of fact to’be determined on remand.”
2 later decisions 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.