Dorothy Stevens v. Dorothy Wright Tillman

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the terms “racist” 21 and “bigoted” have been “watered down by overuse” and are non-actionable unless they 22 “impl[y] the existence of undisclosed, defamatory facts”
• holding that neither general statements charging a person with being racist, unfair, or unjust, nor references to general discriminatory treatment, without more, constitute provably false assertions of fact
• concluding that the term “racist” has been used so variously as to have been “drain[ed] . . . of its former, decidedly opprobrious meaning” and to now “fit comfortably within the immunity for name-calling.”
• noting that calling someone a racist \is not actionable unless it implies the existence of undisclosed[] defamatory facts\
• noting that calling someone a racist \is not actionable unless it implies the existence of undisclosed[] defamatory facts\
• noting applicability of Noerr-Pennington as defense to plaintiff's civil rights action, but finding for defendants on other grounds

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Dee Farmer v. Richard Haas, Edward J. Brennan, and L.E. Dubois
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-04-02· cited 316×
• Luther Haynes and Dorothy Haynes v. Alfred A. Knopf, Incorporated, and Nicholas Lemann
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-12-17· cited 235×
• Standing Committee on Discipline of the United States District Court for the Central District of California v. Stephen Yagman
  Ninth Circuit· 1995-05-30· cited 194×
• Lynette Chapman v. The Higbee Company, D/B/A Dillard Department Stores, Inc.
  Sixth Circuit· 2003-02-11· cited 172×
• United States v. Northern Trust Company, as Trustee of the Caterpillar Incorporated Master Trust and the Inland Steel Industries Pension Trust
  Seventh Circuit· 2004-06-22· cited 138×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 2001-03-05· cited 134×
• Ward v. Zelikovsky
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1994-06-20· cited 127×
• Republic Tobacco Co., Plaintiff-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. North Atlantic Trading Company, Inc., Defendants-Appellants/cross-Appellees
  Seventh Circuit· 2004-09-01· cited 126×
• James R. Sullivan v. James P. Conway and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
  Seventh Circuit· 1998-11-16· cited 102×
• Usha Vakharia, M.D. v. Swedish Covenant Hospital, Nancy Loeber, M.D., Demetrius A. Trakas, M.D.
  Seventh Circuit· 1999-09-09· cited 95×
• MacElree v. Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-04-19· cited 82×
• Kahn v. Bower
  California Court of Appeal· 1991-08-08· cited 80×
• Marrs v. Motorola, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2009-08-14· cited 71×
• Lucille Prussner, as of the Estate of Aileen E. Pfeifer v. United States
  Seventh Circuit· 1990-02-15· cited 69×
• Morrow v. Los Angeles Unified School District
  California Court of Appeal· 2007-04-20· cited 62×
• David Price v. Viking Penguin, Inc. And Peter Matthiessen, William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut, John Irving, Alfred Kazin and Susan Sontag, Amicus Curiae
  Eighth Circuit· 1989-08-07· cited 51×
• Mosdos Chofetz Chaim, Inc. v. Village of Wesley Hills
  S.D. New York· 2010-03-31· cited 42×
• Sullivan v. William A. Randolph, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2007-10-05· cited 41×
• Biggs v. Village of Dupo
  Seventh Circuit· 1990-01-09· cited 37×
• Robert Eaton v. Newport Board of Education, Kentucky Education Association and William Gist
  Sixth Circuit· 1992-11-09· cited 35×

Cites

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

• Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-25· cited 135,235×
• 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×
• Griffin v. Breckenridge
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-07· cited 3,211×
• Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference v. Noerr Motor Freight, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1961-04-03· cited 1,996×
• United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America, Local 610 v. Scott
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-05· cited 1,347×
• Rosenblatt v. Baer
  Supreme Court· 1966-02-21· cited 1,111×
• Truax v. Raich
  Supreme Court· 1915-11-01· cited 1,066×
• National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Claiborne Hardware Co.
  Supreme Court· 1982-10-04· cited 1,047×
• Great American Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Novotny
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-11· cited 1,006×
• Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell
  Supreme Court· 1988-02-24· cited 951×
• Hutchinson v. Proxmire
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-26· cited 738×
• United States v. Guest
  Supreme Court· 1966-04-04· cited 721×
• Ex Parte Yarbrough
  Supreme Court· 1884-03-03· cited 548×
• McDonald v. Smith
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-19· cited 449×
• Bertell Ollman v. Rowland Evans, Robert Novak
  D.C. Circuit· 1984-12-06· cited 402×
• Chapski v. Copley Press
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1982-10-22· cited 206×
• Leslie Fudge v. Penthouse International, Ltd., Leslie Fudge v. Penthouse International, Ltd.
  First Circuit· 1988-03-01· cited 179×
• Volk v. Coler
  Seventh Circuit· 1988-05-02· cited 140×
• William Janklow v. Newsweek, Inc.
  Eighth Circuit· 1986-04-10· cited 121×