21 Utah 2d 368 - Dennett v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2014
2 district · 6 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 Kirby v. Martindale
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in defamation cases a certain degree of specificity is an essential in pleadings”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the defendant should not be required to resort to the ofttimes expensive discovery process to drag from a litigant what he really intends to do to his adversary by a vehicle shrouded in mystery.” .Id. 3 . The trial court concluded that the statements Zoumadakis claims were defamatory are protected by a qualified privilege and that Zoumadakis only”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that such allegation does not accord with the letter and spirit of Rule 8, Utah Rules of Civil Procedure, common law rules of pleading, or the most liberal of any other rules of pleading.” Id. Thus, "in defamation cases a certain degree of specificity is an essential in pleadings”
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.