Metropolitan Opera Association Inc v. Local Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union Henry Tamarin Dennis Diaz’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably 31 Cal. 4th 864 - DVD Copy Control Ass'n, Inc. v. Bunner (2003), Perricone v. Perricone (2009)
8 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 · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart · Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“22 defamation is an action for damages).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When a prior restraint takes the form of a court-issued injunction, the risk of infringing on speech protected under the First Amendment increases. An injunction must be obeyed until modified or dissolved, and its unconstitutionality is no defense to disobedience.... In contrast, a “criminal penalty or a judgment in a defamation case is subject to the whole panoply of protections afforded by deferring the impact of the judgment until all avenues of appellate review have been exhausted. Only after judgment has become final, correct or otherwise, does the law’s sanction become fully operative.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Karhani v. Meijer“Equity will not restrain by injunction the threatened publication of a libel, as such, however great the injury to property may be. This is the universal rule in the United States....”
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.