Ange v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably 639 So. 2d 606 - Levin, Middlebrooks v. US Fire Ins. Co. (1994), 598 So. 2d 65 - Fridovich v. Fridovich (1992)
50 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 Myers v. Hodges
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The doctrine is well settled that defamatory words when used by parties, counsel or witnesses in the due course of judicial procedure, and when relevant to the matter in hand, and pertinent to the subject of inquiry, are privileged and cannot be made the basis of a proceeding for libel or defamation, no matter how false or malicious such statements may in fact be.” (Citing Myers v. Hodges, supra.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Merriman v. Lewis
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.