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Bustos v. A & E Television Networks’s Empirical Analysis

646 F.3d 762 · 2011

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
2
states following
August 2025
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, Inc. · Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. v. Hepps · Haynes v. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[A] report that mistakenly says that the plaintiff stabbed a man in, Cheyenne, Wyoming when he really stabbed a man from Cheyenne, Wyoming” is not materially false, (citing Gomba v. McLaughlin, 180 Colo. 232 , 504 P.2d 337 , 338-39 (Colo. 1972))). 28 . See also Turner, 38 S.W.3d at 115 (”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “minor inaccuracies do not amount to falsity so long as the substance, the gist, the sting of the libelous charge be justified”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “must shoulder the burden in his case-in-chief of proving the falsity of the challenged statement.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.