41 N.C. App. 636 - Brown v. Boney’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2013
17 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. · Gregory v. Lynch · Parker v. . Edwards · Miller v. . Moore · 35 N.C. App. 527 - Matthews ex rel. Bralley v. Lineberry
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This does not mean, however, that newspapers or other media defendants can escape liability where the evidence discloses the publication of false factual statements under the guise of editorializing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In a libel action, the defamatory statements must be false in order to be actionable, and an admission of the truth of the statement is a complete defense.... Likewise, with regard to invasion of privacy of the false light variety, it is essential that the matter published concerning the plaintiff is not true....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The statements on which plaintiff primarily relies in this case are within the realm of fair editorial comment which has been accorded a significant measure of protection under the First Amendment.”
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.