Semida v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis
863 F.2d 1156 · 1988
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2018
5 federal appellate · 4 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 Brown v. American Broadcasting Co. · Greenspan v. Osheroff · Morrissey v. William Morrow & Co.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]reatment as an aggregate communication is reasonable at least where the incidents of distribution are substantially contemporaneous with the original communication to the organization and where the distribution is confined to those persons in the organization having a direct interest in the matter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Singer v. Harris“The Virginia Supreme Court has consistently applied the one year statute of limitations in Va.Code 8.01248 to defamation actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] republication of the defamatory letter... would constitute a separate defamation and thus a new cause of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. John Doe v. Roe
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.