Mitchell v. Random House, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
865 F.2d 664 · 1989
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Campbell v. City of San Antonio (1995), Johnson v. Sawyer (1995)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Galindo v. Precision American Corp. · Rinsley v. Brandt · Brewer v. Memphis Publishing Co. · Manax v. McNamara · 405 So. 2d 898 - Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Devers
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a false and defamatory statement was made concerning the plaintiff; (2) there was an unprivileged publication to a third party; (3) the publisher was negligent in publishing the defamatory statement; (4) the plaintiff suffered damages resulting from publication of the defamatory statement.”
2 later decisions 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.