86 Ill. App. 3d 993 - Colson v. Stieg’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably 106 Ill. App. 3d 626 - American Pet Motels, Inc. v. Chicago Veterinary Medical Ass'n (1982), 189 Ill. App. 3d 980 - Harrison v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (1989)
4 federal appellate · 28 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 Federal Communications Commission v. Home Box Office, Inc. · In re Disbarment of Chopak · 24 Ill. 2d 437 - John v. Tribune Company · Tuley v. United States · 41 Ill. 2d 345 - Zeinfeld v. Hayes Freight Lines, 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In his complaint plaintiff did allege that defendant made the statement ‘knowing it to be false, without reasonable grounds for believing it to be true, maliciously, wilfully, intentionally and without reasonable justification or excuse with the intention of destroying Plaintiff’s personal and professional reputation, causing Plaintiff to be denied tenure, to be terminated from employment *** and interfering with his ability to be suitably employed in the future.’ These allegations, taken together with other factual allegations in the complaint and in the answer to the bill of particulars concerning the relationship of the parties, with the circumstances under which the statements were allegedly made and with the fact that the statement is slanderous per se and therefore one from which malice is presumed, are sufficient to charge actual malice.” (Colson, 86 Ill. App. 3d at 998 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““I have counseled John many times about his teaching and the documents which would prove the counseling are missing from the department files under suspicious circumstances.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““I have information I cannot divulge which reflects adversely on John’s performance as a teacher.””
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.