Green v. Cosby

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an assertion that an accusation was “discredited,” with no “hyperbole or figurative language” surrounding it, had a literal obvious meaning that was actionable
• “The truth of portions of the statement, such as the length of time between when the incidents allegedly occurred and the date on which any particular allegation become public, is uncontested.”
• discussing common law “conditional self-defense privilege”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Dickinson v. Cosby
  California Court of Appeals, 5th District· 2017-11-21· cited 43×
• Green v. Cosby
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2016-03-21· cited 22×
• Alharbi v. Theblaze, Inc.
  D. Massachusetts· 2016-08-09· cited 15×
• Giuffre v. Maxwell
  S.D. New York· 2016-02-29· cited 10×
• Green v. Cosby
  D. Massachusetts· 2016-04-04· cited 10×
• AIG Property Casualty Co. v. Green
  D. Massachusetts· 2015-12-15· cited 5×
• McKee v. Cosby
  D. Massachusetts· 2017-02-16· cited 5×
• Christopher Chandler v. Donald Berlin
  D.C. Circuit· 2021-05-28· cited 3×
• Dickinson v. Cosby
  California Court of Appeal· 2017-11-21

Cites

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

• Ashcroft v. Iqbal
  Supreme Court· 2009-05-18· cited 149,772×
• Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly
  Supreme Court· 2007-05-21· cited 146,720×
• Arbaugh v. Y & H Corp.
  Supreme Court· 2006-02-22· cited 6,493×
• Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-25· cited 4,525×
• Gasperini v. Center for Humanities, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-24· cited 1,834×
• Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co.
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-21· cited 1,770×
• Valerie Watterson v. Eileen Page
  First Circuit· 1993-02-09· cited 1,204×
• Evel Knievel Krystal Knievel v. Espn, a Subsidiary of Walt Disney, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 2005-01-04· cited 1,134×
• Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell
  Supreme Court· 1988-02-24· cited 951×
• Oasis West Realty v. Goldman
  California Supreme Court· 2011-05-16· cited 868×
• Schatz v. Republican State Leadership Committee
  First Circuit· 2012-02-10· cited 670×
• Johnson v. City of Shelby
  Supreme Court· 2014-11-10· cited 467×
• Trans-Spec Truck Service, Inc. v. Caterpillar Inc.
  First Circuit· 2008-04-30· cited 432×
• Taus v. Loftus
  California Supreme Court· 2007-02-26· cited 431×
• Brown v. Kelly Broadcasting Co.
  California Supreme Court· 1989-04-27· cited 341×
• Grajales v. Puerto Rico Ports Authority
  First Circuit· 2012-06-13· cited 337×
• Young v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
  First Circuit· 2013-05-21· cited 314×
• Bushkin Associates, Inc. v. Raytheon Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-01-10· cited 308×
• Penalbert-Rosa v. Fortuno-Burset
  First Circuit· 2011-01-28· cited 246×
• Kosilek v. Spencer
  First Circuit· 2014-12-16· cited 238×