Montgomery v. Milam’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2016
1 federal appellate · 6 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 11 U.S.C. § 362
Relies on Brown · Bonnie Braes Farms, Inc. v. Robinson · Continental Realty Co. v. Little · McDonald v. Goodman
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to maintain a slander of title action in this jurisdiction, the plaintiff must plead and prove that the defendant has knowingly and maliciously communicated, orally or in writing, a false statement which has the effect of disparaging the plaintiffs title to property; he must also plead and prove that he has incurred special damage as a result. Contrary to appellant’s contention at oral argument, if special damage has not been incurred, the action is not maintainable .... The special damage required may consist of either a loss by the plaintiff of a sale of his property or a diminution in its fair market value.”
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.