Sullivan v. Pulitzer Broadcasting Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding arguments insufficient to justify treating the claim as anything other than a defamation action, and because the action was instituted well after the running of the statute of limitations for a defamation, the trial court properly dismissed the suit
• \[A] number of courts that have either recognized the tort [of false light] or assumed the existence of the action for argument's sake apply the statute of limitations for defamation actions to a claim for `false light'\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Nazeri v. Missouri Valley College
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1993-08-17· cited 367×
• Cain v. Hearst Corp.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1994-06-22· cited 210×
• Gore v. Trans World Airlines
  Eighth Circuit· 2000-04-26· cited 145×
• Diamond Shamrock Refining & Marketing Co. v. Mendez
  Texas Supreme Court· 1992-12-31· cited 124×
• Lake v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1998-07-30· cited 108×
• West v. Media General Convergence, Inc.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2001-08-23· cited 90×
• Farrow v. Saint Francis Medical Center
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2013-08-27· cited 83×
• Hester v. Barnett
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1987-01-20· cited 81×
• Denver Publishing Co. v. Bueno
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2002-09-16· cited 48×
• Smith v. Humane Society of United States
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2017-04-25· cited 45×
• COCKRAM v. Genesco, Inc.
  Eighth Circuit· 2012-06-08· cited 44×
• Y.G. v. Jewish Hospital of St. Louis
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1990-07-12· cited 44×
• State Ex Rel. BP Products North America Inc. v. Ross
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2005-05-31· cited 39×
• Doe v. TCI Cablevision
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2003-07-29· cited 28×
• Prescott v. Bay St. Louis Newspapers, Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-10-15· cited 27×
• Pearce v. E.F. Hutton Group, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 1987-07-14· cited 21×
• Nemani v. St. Louis University
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2000-12-05· cited 21×
• Jensen v. Sawyers
  Utah Supreme Court· 2005-11-15· cited 20×
• Swan v. Boardwalk Regency Corp.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2009-05-07· cited 17×
• City of Tacoma v. Tacoma News, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1992-04-17· cited 16×

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×
• Time, Inc. v. Hill
  Supreme Court· 1967-01-09· cited 933×
• Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. v. Hepps
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-21· cited 858×
• Goodrich v. Waterbury Republican-American, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-08-17· cited 235×
• Cantrell v. Forest City Publishing Co.
  Supreme Court· 1974-12-18· cited 231×
• Arrington v. New York Times Co.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1982-04-07· cited 222×
• Crump v. Beckley Newspapers, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1984-07-11· cited 201×
• Sofka v. Thal
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1983-12-20· cited 124×
• Leverton v. Curtis Pub. Co.
  Third Circuit· 1951-12-12· cited 51×
• Kimerli Jayne Pring v. Penthouse International, Ltd., a New York Corporation, and Philip Cioffari
  Tenth Circuit· 1983-01-11· cited 51×
• Langworthy v. Pulitzer Publishing Company
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1963-05-13· cited 49×
• Corcoran v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1978-10-02· cited 49×
• Biederman's of Springfield, Inc. v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1959-04-13· cited 43×
• Peay v. Curtis Pub. Co.
  District of Columbia· 1948-06-07· cited 36×
• Kerby v. Hal Roach Studios, Inc.
  California Court of Appeal· 1942-07-01· cited 34×
• Falwell v. Penthouse International, Ltd.
  W.D. Virginia· 1981-08-06· cited 34×
• Zimmerman v. Associates Discount Corporation
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1969-09-08· cited 33×
• Abdollah Gashgai, M.D. v. Rayna Leibowitz
  First Circuit· 1983-03-24· cited 26×
• Buller v. Pulitzer Publishing Co.
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1984-12-04· cited 25×
• Williams v. KCMO Broadcasting Division— Meredith Corp.
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1971-10-04· cited 24×