Buchholtz v. Dugan’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Steelvest, Inc. v. Scansteel Service Center, Inc. · Garrison v. Jervis B. Webb Co. · Continental Casualty Co. v. Belknap Hardware & Manufacturing Co. · Yancey v. Hamilton · Bell v. Courier-Journal and Louisville Times Company
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Kentucky, truth is a complete defense for libel, even if the statements are libelous 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.