50 Wash. 2d 473 - Spangler v. Glover’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2021
15 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 Wilson v. Sun Publishing Co. · Ecuyer v. New York Life Insurance · Miles v. Louis Wasmer, Inc. · Dick v. Northern Pacific Railway Co. · Olympia Water Works v. Mottman
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the definition of what is libelous per se goes far beyond the specifics of a charge of crime, or of unchastity in a woman, into the more nebulous area of what exposes a person to hatred, contempt, ridicule or obloquy, or deprives him of public confidence or social intercourse, the matter of what constitutes libel per se becomes, in many instances, a question of fact for the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“hatred, contempt, ridicule or obloquy or to [have] deprive [d] him of the benefit of public confidence or social intercourse or to injure him in his business or. occupation, . . .”
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.