91 Wash. 2d 408 - Clawson v. Longview Publishing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2010
2 district · 12 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 · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · St. Amant v. Thompson · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · Garrison v. State of Louisiana
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the importance of the position held, and (2) the nexus between that position and the allegedly defamatory informationspecifically, how closely the defamatory material bears upon fitness for office.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The constitutional guarantees require, we think, a federal rule that prohibits a public official from recovering damages for a defamatory falsehood relating to his official conduct unless he proves that the statement was made with "actual malice" — that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“cannot expect the same degree of protection of their privacy as it relates to their work as those employed in the nonpublic sector . . . even relatively low level public employees must . . . expect a degree of public interest in the performance of their duties.”
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.