105 Wash. 2d 529 - Dunlap v. Wayne’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019 · most notably Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co. (1990), Printing Mart-Morristown v. Sharp Electronics Corp. (1989)
8 federal appellate · 63 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 Connick v. Myers · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Calder v. Jones · Rosenbloom v. Metromedia, Inc. · Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. v. Greenmoss Builders, 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A simple expression of opinion based on disclosed or assumed nondefamatory facts is not itself sufficient for an action of defamation, no matter how unjustified and unreasonable the opinion may be or how derogatory it is.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n any event, the Washington Constitution may provide heightened protection to media defendants. Const, art. 1, § 5; see State v. Coe, 101 Wn.2d 364 , 679 P.2d 353 (1984).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the medium and context in which the statement was published, (2) the audience to whom it was published, and (3) whether the statement implies undisclosed facts.”
3 later decisions 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.