Grillo v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably 42 Cal. 3d 254 - Baker v. Los Angeles Herald Examiner (1986), 13 Cal. 4th 952 - In Re Sade C. (1996)
40 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. · Garrison v. State of Louisiana · Baumgartner v. United States · 25 Cal. 3d 436 - People v. Wende · 17 Cal. 3d 596 - Gregory v. McDonnell Douglas Corp.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is an essential part of our national heritage that an irresponsible slob can stand on a street corner and, with impunity, heap invective on all of us in public office. (( í}{ ?}{ % “Our political history reeks of unfair, intemperate, scurrilous and irresponsible charges against those in or seeking public office. Washington was called a murderer, Jefferson a blackguard, a knave and insane (Mad Tom), Henry Clay a pimp, Andrew Jackson a murderer and an adulterer, and Andrew Johnson and Ulysses Grant drunkards. Lincoln was called a half-witted usurper, a baboon, a gorilla, a ghoul. Theodore Roosevelt was castigated as a traitor to his class, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as a traitor to his country. Dwight D. Eisenhower was charged with being a conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy.” Grillo v. Smith (1983), 144 Cal.App.3d 868, 872 , 193 Cal.Rptr. 414, 417 .”
1 later decision 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.