Hayes v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Shelley v. Kraemer · Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. v. Greenmoss Builders, Inc. · Time, Inc. v. Firestone
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court should not classify homosexuals with those miscreants who have engaged in actions that deserve the reprobation and scorn which is implicitly a part of the slander/libel per se classification.” 832 P.2d at 1025 . The Hayes court concluded that the only way to warrant a per se classification is if that classification should”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.