Coliniatis v. Dimas’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`denials, however vehement; such denials are so commonplace in the world of polemical charge and countercharge that, in themselves, they hardly alert the conscientious reporter to the likelihood of error.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lohrenz v. Donnelly
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.