Reed v. Melnick’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Information Control Corporation v. Genesis One Computer Corporation (1980), Marchiondo v. Brown (1982)
4 federal appellate · 32 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 52 Cal. 2d 536 - MacLeod v. Tribune Publishing Co. · 48 N.J. Super. 420 - Herrmann v. Newark Morning Ledger Co. · 15 Wis. 2d 452 - Martin v. Outboard Marine Corp. · Hinsdale v. Orange County Publications, Inc. · Young v. New Mexico Broadcasting Company
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The lines of demarcation between slander ... and libel... have become sufficiently blurred that we agree there are good reasons for abolishing the distinction between [them].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the requirement of proof of actual damage in a latent libel action”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Durden
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.