Branda v. Sanford’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 30 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Steiner v. Showboat Operating Co. (1994), Posadas v. City of Reno (1993)
6 federal appellate · 30 district · 24 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 Keeble v. United States · 24 Cal. 3d 579 - Cervantez v. J. C. Penney Co. · 88 Wash. 2d 735 - Contreras v. Crown Zellerbach Corp. · Thomson v. Cash · SURETY MIDLAND INSURANCE COMPANY v. State
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is generally accepted that for both libel and slander it is a question of law and, therefore, within the province of the court, to determine if a statement is capable of a defamatory construction. If susceptible of different constructions, one of which is defamatory, resolution of the ambiguity is a question of fact for the jury.”
4 later decisions 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.