McKee v. Cosby

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that these First Amendment safeguards are “[s]uperimposed on any state’s defamation law”
• noting that these First Amendment safeguards are “[s]uperimposed on any state’s defamation law”
• finding letter nonactionable because it “adequately disclosed the non-defamatory facts underlying [defendant’s] assertions,” including “citations to articles and other sources” and “extensive underlying facts”
• describing the Restatement as “an ‘obvious source of guidance’ for choice of law questions.” (quoting Bushkin Assocs. v. Raytheon Co., 473 N.E.2d 662, 668 (Mass. 1985))
• potentially derogatory statements published with detailed backup as to foundation for belief not actionable
• “Superimposed on any state's defamation law are First Amendment safeguards.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Foisie v. Worcester Polytechnic Inst.
  First Circuit· 2020-07-24· cited 67×
• Douglas v. Hirshon
  First Circuit· 2023-03-21· cited 53×
• Dickinson v. Cosby
  California Court of Appeals, 5th District· 2017-11-21· cited 43×
• Pitta v. Medeiros
  First Circuit· 2024-01-04· cited 39×
• Cheng v. Neumann
  First Circuit· 2022-10-25· cited 38×
• McKee v. Cosby
  Supreme Court· 2019-02-19· cited 10×
• SEC v. Lemelson
  First Circuit· 2023-01-03· cited 9×
• Tax-Free Fixed Income Fund for PR Residents, Inc. v. Ocean Capital LLC
  First Circuit· 2025-05-12· cited 9×
• Better Way Ford, LLC v. Ford Motor Company
  First Circuit· 2025-07-01· cited 4×
• Very Reverend Georges F. de Laire, J.C.L. v. Gary Michael Voris, Anita Carey, St. Michael’s Media a/k/a Church Militant, and Marc Ballestrieri
  D. New Hampshire· 2023-08-09· cited 1×
• Dickinson v. Cosby
  California Court of Appeal· 2017-11-21
• Franchini v. Bangor Publishing Co., Inc.
  First Circuit· 2024-07-17
• Robert Patrick Lewis et al. v. Seth Abramson
  D. New Hampshire· 2020-12-18

Cites

24 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×
• Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co.
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-21· cited 1,770×
• Time, Inc. v. Firestone
  Supreme Court· 1976-03-02· cited 626×
• Wolston v. Reader's Digest Assn., Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-26· cited 442×
• Bushkin Associates, Inc. v. Raytheon Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-01-10· cited 308×
• Bruno & Stillman, Inc. v. Globe Newspaper Co.
  First Circuit· 1980-10-17· cited 197×
• Phantom Touring, Inc. v. Affiliated Publications
  First Circuit· 1992-01-10· cited 137×
• Cosme v. Whitin MacHine Works, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-05-03· cited 102×
• Lluberes v. UNCOMMON PRODUCTIONS, LLC
  First Circuit· 2011-12-02· cited 95×
• Partington v. Bugliosi
  Ninth Circuit· 1995-06-07· cited 93×
• Mitan v. Campbell
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2005-12-06· cited 91×
• Ireland v. Edwards
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1998-10-07· cited 87×
• Pendleton v. City of Haverhill
  First Circuit· 1998-09-03· cited 77×
• Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. v. Peter J. McNulty Law Firm
  First Circuit· 2012-07-27· cited 70×
• Yohe v. Nugent
  First Circuit· 2003-02-26· cited 65×
• Victoria Price Street v. National Broadcasting Co.
  Sixth Circuit· 1981-03-13· cited 62×
• Gray v. St. Martin's Press, Inc.
  First Circuit· 2000-08-02· cited 61×
• Riley v. Harr
  First Circuit· 2002-06-11· cited 46×
• Piccone v. Bartels, Jr.
  First Circuit· 2015-05-07· cited 42×

Other cases named McKee v. Cosby

2 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• McKee v. Cosby
  Supreme Court· 2019-02-19· cited 10×
• McKee v. Cosby
  D. Massachusetts· 2017-02-16· cited 5×