573 So. 2d 695 - Lawrence v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2018
4 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 · 558 So. 2d 869 - Tucker v. Hinds County · Edmonds v. Delta Democrat Publishing Co. · 512 So. 2d 698 - Walton v. Bourgeois · 562 So. 2d 1212 - City of Mound Bayou v. Johnson
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he defamation must be clear and unmistakable from the words themselves and not be the product of innuendo, speculation or conjecture.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he question whether said-to-be-offending words are defamatory may be decided by the Court without submission to the trier of fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Our Supreme] Court has described a defamatory statement as any written or printed language which tends to injure one's reputation, and thereby expose him to public hatred, contempt or ridicule, degrade him in society, lessen him in public esteem or lower him in the confidence of the community.”
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.