Chapin’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 18 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Partington v. Bugliosi (1995), 116 Cal. App. 4th 375 - Franklin v. Dynamic Details, Inc. (2004)
6 federal appellate · 18 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Conley v. Gibson · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Garrison v. State of Louisiana · Milkovich v. Lorain Journal 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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[B]ecause the Constitution provides a sanctuary for truth, a libel-by-implication plaintiff must make an especially rigorous showing where the expressed facts are literally true. The language must not only be reasonably read to impart the false innuendo, but it must also affirmatively suggest that the author intends or endorses the inference.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] question can conceivably be defamatory, though it must be reasonably read as an assertion of a false fact”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]ecause the bases for the 'hefty mark-up' conclusion are fully disclosed, no reasonable reader would consider the term anything but the opinion of the author drawn from the circumstances related.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.