Musser v. Smith Protective Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• predicate fact question about meaning and effect of words may be passed to jury
• statement that former employee \relieved\ his former employer of some of its accounts is not defamatory because it does not accuse employee of anything other than competitiveness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Carr v. Brasher
  Texas Supreme Court· 1989-05-10· cited 1,433×
• Turner v. KTRK Television, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 2000-12-21· cited 446×
• Universe Life Insurance v. Giles
  Texas Supreme Court· 1997-07-09· cited 383×
• Dolcefino v. Randolph
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2000-06-08· cited 362×
• Cropper v. Caterpillar Tractor Co.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1988-05-25· cited 316×
• Joseph E. Hancock v. Easwaran P. Variyam
  Texas Supreme Court· 2013-05-17· cited 277×
• Alaniz v. Hoyt
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2003-05-08· cited 194×
• Texas Disposal Systems Landfill, Inc. v. Waste Management Holdings, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2007-04-03· cited 178×
• the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan Houston, Inc. v. John Moore Services, Inc. and John Moore Renovation, LLC
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2013-07-16· cited 176×
• New Times, Inc. v. Isaacks
  Texas Supreme Court· 2004-09-03· cited 173×
• Duran v. Furr's Supermarkets, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1996-05-01· cited 160×
• the Dallas Morning News, Inc. and Steve Blow v. John Tatum and Mary Ann Tatum
  Texas Supreme Court· 2018-05-11· cited 155×
• George Farias v. Bexar County Board of Trustees for Mental Health Mental Retardation Services
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-04-12· cited 152×
• Baubles & Beads v. Louis Vuitton, S.A.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1989-02-22· cited 141×
• D Magazine Partners, L.P. v. Rosenthal
  Texas Supreme Court· 2017-03-17· cited 132×
• 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×
• Knox v. Taylor
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1999-04-08· cited 120×
• Marshall Field Stores, Inc. v. Gardiner
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1993-07-29· cited 101×
• Vice v. Kasprzak
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2009-12-09· cited 93×
• Moore v. Waldrop
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2005-05-25· cited 88×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Fitzjarrald v. Panhandle Publishing Co.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1950-02-22· cited 66×
• Cotulla v. Kerr
  Texas Supreme Court· 1889-05-21· cited 66×
• Beaumont Enterprise & Journal v. Smith
  Texas Supreme Court· 1985-03-06· cited 56×
• Gartman v. Hedgpeth
  Texas Supreme Court· 1941-12-10· cited 22×
• Taylor v. Houston Chronicle Publishing Co.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1971-01-01· cited 13×
• Musser v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1985-03-28· cited 12×