799 So. 2d 83 - Smith v. White’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, Inc. · Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Skinner · Louisiana Oil Corp. v. Renno · New Orleans & Northeastern R. v. Lewis
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A communication made in good faith and on a subject matter in which the person making it has an interest, or in reference to which he has a duty, is privileged if made to a person or persons having a corresponding interest or duty, even though it contains matter which without this privilege would be slanderous, provided the statement is made without malice and in good faith.”
4 later decisions 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.