Butler v. Stites’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
July 1979
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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“The rule is that in an action for slander, but possibly uncertain what the slanderous words were, the plaintiff may state one set of words in one count and another set in another, and so varying them in as many different ones as he chooses. Then if the evidence established either set of words the plaintiff recovers. [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Handley v. May
How this case has been treated — in progress
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