Washington v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
80 F.3d 555 · 1996
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2013
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co. · White v. Fraternal Order of Police · Moldea v. New York Times Co. · Moldea v. New York Times Co.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘[a] statement of opinion is actionable only if it has an explicit or implicit factual foundation and is therefore objectively verifiable.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no categorical First Amendment immunity against defamation suits for statements of opinion”
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.