Pope v. Chronicle Publishing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
95 F.3d 607 · 1996
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2015
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co. · Engle v. Isaac · 154 Ill. 2d 1 - Kolegas v. Heftel Broadcasting Corp. · 169 Ill. 2d 504 - Swick v. Liautaud · 92 Ill. 2d 344 - Chapski v. Copley Press
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.
“A defamatory communication may consist of a statement in the form of an opinion, but a statement of this nature is actionable only if it implies the allegation of undisclosed defamatory facts as the basis for the opinion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a written or oral statement ... in context, with the words and the implications therefrom given their natural and obvious meaning; if, as so construed, the statement may reasonably be innocently interpreted or reasonably be interpreted as referring to someone other than the plaintiff it can not be actionable per se. This preliminary determination is properly a question of law to be resolved by the court in the first instance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“objectively verifiable or testable facts.”
1 later decision 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.