Wynn v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
14 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Pegasus v. Reno Newspapers, Inc. (2002), Wyeth v. Rowatt (2010)
14 district · 34 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · St. Amant v. Thompson · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he district court's failure to make explicit findings is not a per se abuse of discretion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“5U the record clearly reflects that the district court properly considered the Beattie factors, we will defer to its discretion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Claims for attorney fees under. . . NRCP 68 are fact intensive,”
2 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.