Poorbaugh v. Mullen’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Matter of Estate of Heeter (1992), Newberry v. Allied Stores, Inc. (1989)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 39 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 Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Jacron Sales Co. v. Sindorf · Barnett v. Malley · Peagler v. Phoenix Newspapers, Inc. · Maheu v. Hughes Tool Co.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No action lies for publication of defamatory words concerning a group or class of persons unless the group or class is so small that the matter can reasonably be understood to refer to the plaintiff, or unless the circumstances of publication reasonably give rise to the conclusion that there is particular reference to the member.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Liability for defamation is based upon both publication, i.e., communication to a third person, and proof of actual damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Durden“[t]he standard of strict liability no longer applies”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Durden
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.