Dunaway v. Troutt’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably Ray Dodge, Inc. v. Moore (1972), Matthews v. Rodgers (1983)
5 federal appellate · 46 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 Washington Gas Light Co. v. Lansden · Southwestern Gas & Electric Co. v. Godfrey · Hodges v. Smith · Smith v. Wunderlich · Schafer v. Ostmann
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the slanderous words are actionable per se, the plaintiff is entitled as a matter of law to compensatory damages, and is not required to introduce evidence of actual damages to entitle him to recover substantial damages. In such a case the plaintiff need not prove actual damages in order to recover substantial damages.”
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.