Partington v. Bugliosi

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that statements are protected when, “read in context, they are not statements implying the assertion of objective facts but are instead interpretations of the facts available to both the writer and the reader”
• holding that where the context in which the statement at issue was made is sufficient to demonstrate that the statement is constitutionally protected, the fact that the statement itself cannot be proven true or false is an additional basis for dismissing the defamation action
• observing that “fake,” “phony,” “hefty mark-up,” and “unfair” are too subjective or unprovable to be actionable
• “rhetorical hyperbole” and “imaginative expression” enlivens writers’ prose and is protected by the first amendment
• \[R]obust debate among people with different viewpoints * * * is a vital part of our democracy * * *.\
• “[N]egative statements concerning a lawyer’s performance during-trial, even if made explicitly, are generally not actionable since they are not ordinarily ‘susceptible of being proved true or false.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Evel Knievel Krystal Knievel v. Espn, a Subsidiary of Walt Disney, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 2005-01-04· cited 1,134×
• Gilbrook v. City of Westminster
  Ninth Circuit· 1999-05-21· cited 435×
• Yasser Abbas v. Foreign Policy Group, LLC
  D.C. Circuit· 2015-04-24· cited 184×
• Peterson v. Grisham
  Tenth Circuit· 2010-02-01· cited 164×
• Suzuki Motor Corporation and American Suzuki Motor Corporation v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc., a Non-Profit New York Corporation
  Ninth Circuit· 2003-05-19· cited 114×
• Biro v. Condé Nast
  S.D. New York· 2012-08-09· cited 110×
• Thomas M. Cooley Law School v. Kurzon Strauss, LLP
  Sixth Circuit· 2014-07-02· cited 73×
• Portia Boulger v. James Woods
  Sixth Circuit· 2019-02-27· cited 69×
• Neumann v. Liles
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2016-03-03· cited 64×
• Gold v. Harrison
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1998-07-08· cited 60×
• Condit v. Dunne
  S.D. New York· 2004-04-27· cited 52×
• Adelson v. Harris
  S.D. New York· 2013-09-30· cited 46×
• Issa v. Applegate
  California Court of Appeals, 5th District· 2019-01-24· cited 41×
• Underwager v. Channel 9 Australia
  Ninth Circuit· 1995-10-31· cited 40×
• Price v. Stossel
  Ninth Circuit· 2010-08-24· cited 39×
• Obsidian Finance Group, LLC v. Crystal Cox
  Ninth Circuit· 2014-01-17· cited 33×
• Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc.
  C.D. California· 1998-08-03· cited 31×
• Cochran v. NYP Holdings, Inc.
  C.D. California· 1998-08-03· cited 30×
• Overhill Farms, Inc. v. Lopez
  California Court of Appeal· 2010-11-15· cited 30×
• De Havilland v. FX Networks, LLC
  California Court of Appeals, 5th District· 2018-03-26· cited 29×

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co.
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-21· cited 1,770×
• Dcd Programs, Ltd. v. Michael W. Leighton, Hill, Farrer & Burrill
  Ninth Circuit· 1987-11-27· cited 1,197×
• Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-20· cited 1,051×
• Time, Inc. v. Firestone
  Supreme Court· 1976-03-02· cited 626×
• Andrea Dworkin Priscilla Moree Judith Fouts v. Hustler Magazine Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 1989-01-24· cited 449×
• Wolston v. Reader's Digest Assn., Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-26· cited 442×
• Bertell Ollman v. Rowland Evans, Robert Novak
  D.C. Circuit· 1984-12-06· cited 402×
• Frank Howey v. United States of America, and Third-Party v. Radio Corporation of America, Third-Party v. Universal Services, Inc., Third-Party
  Third Circuit· 1973-07-30· cited 275×
• Luther Haynes and Dorothy Haynes v. Alfred A. Knopf, Incorporated, and Nicholas Lemann
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-12-17· cited 235×
• Robert C. White v. Fraternal Order of Police
  D.C. Circuit· 1990-09-19· cited 219×
• Liberty Lobby, Inc. v. Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
  D.C. Circuit· 1988-02-05· cited 205×
• Jerome R. Lewis v. Time Incorporated
  Ninth Circuit· 1983-07-12· cited 195×
• Dan E. Moldea v. New York Times Company
  D.C. Circuit· 1994-02-18· cited 158×
• Jackie Collins Lerman v. Flynt Distributing Co., Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1984-09-10· cited 153×
• Unelko Corp., an Illinois Corporation Howard G. Ohlhausen v. Andy Rooney, an Individual Cbs, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 1990-08-24· cited 140×
• Phantom Touring, Inc. v. Affiliated Publications
  First Circuit· 1992-01-10· cited 137×
• Dan E. Moldea v. New York Times Company
  D.C. Circuit· 1994-05-03· cited 135×
• Rosario Ramirez v. Fox Television Station, Inc. Chuck Ammann Nancy Ferguson
  Ninth Circuit· 1993-07-14· cited 128×
• John L. Brewer v. Memphis Publishing Company, Inc., Anita W. Brewer v. Memphis Publishing Company, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1980-10-02· cited 98×