Robertson v. McCloskey’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. v. Greenmoss Builders, Inc. · Massachusetts v. Podgurski Et Al. · Contemporary Mission, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Famous Music Corporation, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee · Gertz v. Robert Welch, 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“General damages compensate a plaintiff for harm to his reputation or emotional well-being; special damages, on the other hand, are awarded for losses of an economic or pecuniary nature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] successful libel plaintiff can recover three types of damages--nominal, compensatory [and] punitive.”
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.