Davitt v. Smart’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
March 1993
most recently cited
1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Henderson v. Millis · Belcher v. Little · Hutchinson v. Maiwurm
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) an uttering and publication of slanderous words; (2) falsity of those words; (3) malice; (4) special damages to the plaintiffs; and (5) an estate or interest of the plaintiff in the property slandered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Nevins
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.