97 Cal. App. 3d 822 - Albertini v. Schaefer’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 120 Cal. App. 4th 90 - Mann v. Quality Old Time Service, Inc. (2004), Polygram Records, Inc. v. Superior Court (1985)
37 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 Stationers Corp. v. Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. · 15 Cal. 3d 866 - Chern v. Bank of America · Austin v. Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance · 34 Cal. App. 3d 117 - Residents of Beverly Glen, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles · 70 Cal. App. 3d 331 - Frazier, Dame, Doherty, Parrish & Hanawalt v. Boccardo, Blum, Lull, Niland, Teerlink & Bell
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Words which fall within the purview of Civil Code § 46 are deemed to constitute slander per se,”
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.