Smith v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
September 1997
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · St. Amant v. Thompson · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · Bates v. State Bar
Most-quoted passages
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“The author of a defamation is liable for damages 'directly and proximately’ caused.”); Luna v. Seattle Times Co., 186 Wash. 618, 636 , 59 P.2d 753 (1936) (Beals, J., dissenting) (quoted in Earl v. Times-Mirror Co., 185 Cal. 165, 172 , 196 P. 57 (1921) (”
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.