Smith v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
895 F.2d 147 · 1990
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2013
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 541
Relies on McDonald v. Smith · 85 N.C. App. 669 - Harris v. NCNB National Bank of North Carolina · Jarman v. Offutt · 51 N.C. App. 571 - Jones v. City of Greensboro · Stewart v. Nation-Wide Check Corporation
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ommunications made in the course of an administrative proceeding are absolutely privileged if the administrative officer or agency is exercising a judicial or quasi-judicial function.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lewis v. Oliver
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.