Franklin v. Blank’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Circus Circus Hotels, Inc. v. Witherspoon (1983), 24 Cal. 3d 55 - Hackethal v. Weissbein (1979)
4 district · 26 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · Rosenbloom v. Metromedia, Inc. · Goodman v. Brock Ex Rel. Estate of Brock · Ramstead v. Morgan
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The policy reasons for according [absolute] privilege to quasi-judicial proceedings involving peer review of alleged professional misconduct are at least equally compelling. The appropriate professional societies, by exercising peer review, can and do perform a great public service by exercising control over those persons placed in a position of public trust but nevertheless unfit to bear that responsibility. It is hardly open to dispute that communications initiating such proceedings are an indispensable part thereof and are to be protected by the privilege.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Absolute immunity from responsibility without regard to purpose, motive, or reasonableness of conduct is, and should be, confined to a very few rather well-recognized situations. Prosser on Torts § 94 (1941). .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gengler v. Phelps
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.