Waln v. Putnam’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2025
2 federal appellate · 10 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 American Stores Co. v. Byrd · Fales v. Kaupp · Fahr v. Hayes · Hackworth v. Larson · Barnhart v. Ahlers
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A privileged communication is one made: [[Image here]] 2) In any legislative or judicial proceeding, or in any other official proceeding authorized by law; 3) In a communication, without malice, to a person interested therein, by one who is also interested, or by one who stands in such relation to the person interested as to afford a reasonable ground for supposing the motive for the communication innocent, or who is requested by the person interested to give the information; 4) By a fair and true report, without malice, of a judicial, legislative, or other public official proceeding or of anything said in the course thereof. In the cases provided for in subdivisions (3) and (4) of this section, malice is not inferred from the communication or publication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Flugge v. Wagner“[a] slanderous statement ... incidentally overheard by a bystander does not remove the communication from the protection of the privilege; this, in itself, does not indicate a malicious intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Petersen v. Dacy“On appeal from judgment the Supreme Court may review any order, ruling or determination of the trial court, including an order denying a new trial.”
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.