Cain v. Hearst Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that Texas does not recognize the tort of false light
• holding that Texas does not recognize the tort of false light
• observing that “any fact in the story, no matter how seemingly innocuous, may prove to be a basis for liability”
• recognizing the torts of intrusion upon seclusion and public disclosure of embarrassing private facts and declining to recognize the tort of false light
• recognizing the torts of intrusion upon seclusion and public disclosure of embarrassing private facts and declining to recognize the tort of false light
• noting that a statement that unambiguously and falsely imputes criminal conduct to plaintiff is defamatory per se

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Cited by

163 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Bentley v. Bunton
  Texas Supreme Court· 2002-08-29· cited 543×
• Turner v. KTRK Television, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 2000-12-21· cited 446×
• GTE Mobilnet of South Texas Ltd. Partnership v. Pascouet
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2001-11-01· cited 315×
• Campbell v. City of San Antonio
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-01-19· cited 314×
• Byron D. Neely, Individually, and Byron D. Neely, M.D., P.A. v. Nanci Wilson, CBS Stations Group of Texas, L.P., D/B/A Keye-Tv and Viacom, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 2013-06-28· cited 271×
• Allen Chadwick Burbage v. W. Kirk Burbage and Burbage Funeral Home
  Texas Supreme Court· 2014-08-29· cited 248×
• Johnson v. Sawyer
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-03-16· cited 165×
• Cantu v. Rocha
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-02-28· cited 165×
• Welling v. Weinfeld
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2007-06-06· cited 165×
• Jews for Jesus, Inc. v. Rapp
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-10-23· cited 156×
• the Dallas Morning News, Inc. and Steve Blow v. John Tatum and Mary Ann Tatum
  Texas Supreme Court· 2018-05-11· cited 155×
• Gennifer Flowers v. James Carville Hillary Rodham Clinton Little, Brown & Co. George Stephanopoulos
  Ninth Circuit· 2002-11-12· cited 143×
• Rehak Creative Services, Inc. and Robert Rehak v. Ann L. Witt, Ellen Witt, Raymond Witt and Ann Witt Campaign
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2013-05-21· cited 123×
• Texas-Ohio Gas, Inc. v. Mecom
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2000-08-23· cited 111×
• Lake v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1998-07-30· cited 108×
• Vice v. Kasprzak
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2009-12-09· cited 93×
• West v. Media General Convergence, Inc.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2001-08-23· cited 90×
• Blanche v. First Nationwide Mortgage Corp.
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2002-03-14· cited 88×
• Larson v. Family Violence & Sexual Assault Prevention Center of South Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2002-01-31· cited 80×
• Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. Norris
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1997-07-02· cited 77×

Cites

95 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1964-03-09· cited 8,531×
• Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-25· cited 4,525×
• Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire
  Supreme Court· 1942-03-09· cited 2,706×
• Garrison v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1964-11-23· cited 1,859×
• Baggett v. Bullitt
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-01· cited 1,188×
• Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell
  Supreme Court· 1988-02-24· cited 951×
• Time, Inc. v. Hill
  Supreme Court· 1967-01-09· cited 933×
• Yeager v. Local Union 20, Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen & Helpers of America
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1983-08-31· cited 822×
• Old Dominion Branch No. 496 v. Austin
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-25· cited 723×
• Twyman v. Twyman
  Texas Supreme Court· 1993-05-05· cited 701×
• Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-25· cited 685×
• Boyles v. Kerr
  Texas Supreme Court· 1993-05-05· cited 598×
• Davenport v. Garcia
  Texas Supreme Court· 1992-09-09· cited 381×
• Industrial Foundation of the South v. Texas Industrial Accident Board
  Texas Supreme Court· 1976-07-21· cited 247×
• Billings v. Atkinson
  Texas Supreme Court· 1973-01-24· cited 244×
• Goodrich v. Waterbury Republican-American, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-08-17· cited 235×
• Cantrell v. Forest City Publishing Co.
  Supreme Court· 1974-12-18· cited 231×
• Arrington v. New York Times Co.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1982-04-07· cited 222×
• Crump v. Beckley Newspapers, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1984-07-11· cited 201×
• Miller v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1977-03-21· cited 184×

Other cases named Cain v. Hearst Corp.

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Cain v. Hearst Corp.
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-08-20