Chang-Sin Lee v. Dong-A Ilbo’s Empirical Analysis
849 F.2d 876 · 1988
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2007
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Connick v. Myers · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · First National Bank of Boston v. X Bellotti · Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn · Gilbert v. First National Bank of Jackson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A media party] may not have the financial or logistical wherewithal to confirm the accuracy of the information in the report. Or, at the very least, it may not be able [to confirm the accuracy of the report] with the speed necessary to make the publication of the report meaningful to its readership. In the heat of the moment, faced with the prospect of potentially devastating lawsuits on the one hand and the difficulty of confirming a story’s accuracy on the other, the media party may not find much comfort in the fact that, if the case goes to trial, the plaintiff may not be able to prove falsity. On balance, media defendants, especially the smaller ones which are targeted to specific audiences, may all too often decide not to publish. As a result, certain segments of the American public ... will be deprived of access to information of great importance to them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“take advantage of our liberal First Amendment rights in order maliciously to defame or, carelessly and without adequate inquiry, excoriate private parties.”
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.