Diez v. Pearson’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2011
8 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 Henry v. Halliburton · Anton v. St. Louis Suburban Newspapers, Inc. · Smith v. UAW-CIO Federal Credit Union · Matyska v. Stewart
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the reader would be left with the impression that the plaintiff was being accused of a crime or that the defendant disagreed with the plaintiff's conduct and used pejorative statements or vituperative language to indicate his or her disapproval.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the totality of the circumstances to determine whether the ordinary reader would have interpreted the statement as an opinion.”
1 later decision 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.