Potomac Valve & Fitting Inc. Raymond C. McGarvey v. Crawford Fitting Company Dibert Valve & Fitting Company, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
829 F.2d 1280 · 1987
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 6 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2019 · most notably Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co. (1990), Standing Committee on Discipline of United States District Court v. Yagman (1995)
29 federal appellate · 6 district · 15 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc.
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries but on the competition of other ideas. But there is no constitutional value in false statements of fact.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“a reasonable reader or listener would recognize its weakly substantiated or subjective character--and discount it accordingly.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“the broader social context into which the statement fits.”
5 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.