1 N.M. Ct. App. 566 - Smith v. Durden’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
4
states following
December 2023
most recently cited
3 district · 12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · Rosenbloom v. Metromedia, Inc. · Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, Inc.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The issue before the Court is whether New Mexico requires a showing of injury to one's reputation to establish liability for defamation. We hold that it does, as injury to reputation is the very essence of the tort of defamation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marcus v. Swanson“a wrongful and unprivileged injury to a person's reputation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.