Dexter v. Spear’s Empirical Analysis
1825
Citation profile
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cited by 1 later decisions
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cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
February 2019
most recently cited
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“The liberty of speech, or of the press, has nothing to do with this subject. They are not endangered by the punishment of libellous publications. The liberty of speech and the liberty of the press do not authorize malicious and injurious defamation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McKee v. Cosby
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