Herron v. KING Broadcasting Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• adopting Restatement (Second) of Torts § 577A and holding that separate incident of publication occurred when broadcaster revised and read earlier-broadcasted defamatory report
• adopting the “single publication rule” for defamation actions and rejecting the view that “each publication of a defamatory utterance” constitutes a separate cause of action
• \Inaccurate reporting is not defamatory unless by altering the \sting” it creates a materially different impression on the reader”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Turner v. KTRK Television, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 2000-12-21· cited 446×
• Story v. Shelter Bay Company
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1988-09-06· cited 105×
• Herron v. KING Broadcasting, Co.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1989-06-22· cited 92×
• Schmalenberg v. Tacoma News, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1997-09-02· cited 58×
• Moe v. Wise
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1999-11-19· cited 48×
• Duc Tan v. Le
  Washington Supreme Court· 2013-05-09· cited 43×
• Life Designs Ranch, Inc. v. Michael Sommer
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2015-11-12· cited 42×
• Corey v. Pierce County
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2010-01-25· cited 42×
• Momah v. Bharti
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2008-04-28· cited 34×
• Nelson v. McClatchy Newpapers, Inc.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1997-02-20· cited 32×
• Nelson v. McClatchy Newspapers
  Washington Supreme Court· 1997-05-08· cited 31×
• Hitter v. Bellevue School District No. 405
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1992-07-13· cited 28×
• Margoles v. Hubbart
  Washington Supreme Court· 1988-07-15· cited 25×
• Valdez-Zontek v. Eastmont School District
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2010-01-12· cited 25×
• Phoenix Trading, Inc. v. Loops LLC
  Ninth Circuit· 2013-10-04· cited 23×
• Janklow v. Viking Press
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1990-07-18· cited 21×
• Doe v. Gonzaga University
  Washington Supreme Court· 2001-05-31· cited 21×
• Klein v. Boeing Co.
  W.D. Washington· 1994-01-27· cited 20×
• State v. Superior Court
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1996-06-27· cited 16×
• Phillips v. World Publishing Co.
  W.D. Washington· 2011-10-14· cited 13×

Cites

32 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×
• Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1984-04-30· cited 2,137×
• St. Amant v. Thompson
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 2,076×
• Garrison v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1964-11-23· cited 1,859×
• New York Times Co. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-21· cited 1,167×
• Old Dominion Branch No. 496 v. Austin
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-25· cited 723×
• Pittsburgh Press Co. v. Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations
  Supreme Court· 1973-10-09· cited 707×
• Time, Inc. v. Pape
  Supreme Court· 1971-04-05· cited 420×
• Reader's Digest Assn. v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1984-11-19· cited 209×
• Barry M. Goldwater v. Ralph Ginzburg, Warren Boroson, and Factmagazine, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1969-07-18· cited 205×
• Mark v. Seattle Times
  Washington Supreme Court· 1981-11-12· cited 198×
• Herron v. Tribune Publishing Co.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1987-05-07· cited 195×
• Tavoulareas v. Piro
  D.C. Circuit· 1987-03-13· cited 185×
• United States v. Zemek
  Ninth Circuit· 1980-10-06· cited 121×
• Dunlap v. Wayne
  Washington Supreme Court· 1986-03-27· cited 110×
• Janovich v. Herron
  Washington Supreme Court· 1979-03-30· cited 53×
• Tilton v. Cowles Publishing Co.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1969-09-18· cited 53×
• Tavoulareas v. Piro
  D.C. Circuit· 1985-04-09· cited 44×
• Holden v. American News Co.
  E.D. Washington· 1943-10-07· cited 26×