Swanson v. Speidel Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that statements in personnel files that would otherwise be defamatory are privileged
• recognizing qualified privilege in communications between former and prospective employers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Wilkinson v. State Crime Laboratory Commission
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2002-01-31· cited 127×
• Haley v. Town of Lincoln
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1992-06-25· cited 92×
• Powers v. Carvalho
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1977-02-03· cited 50×
• Ventetuolo v. Burke
  First Circuit· 1979-03-30· cited 42×
• Avilla v. Newport Grand Jai Alai LLC
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2007-11-21· cited 30×
• Gordon v. St. Joseph's Hospital
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1985-07-18· cited 22×
• Ventetuolo v. Burke
  D. Rhode Island· 1978-05-31· cited 19×
• DiBiasio v. Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co.
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1987-05-11· cited 19×
• Mills v. C.H.I.L.D., Inc.
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2003-12-19· cited 18×
• Ims v. Town of Portsmouth
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2011-12-09· cited 18×
• Trainor v. the Standard Times
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2007-06-20· cited 14×
• Alford v. Georgia-Pacific Corp.
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1976-07-01· cited 12×
• Thacker v. Peak
  S.D. West Virginia· 1992-06-03· cited 9×
• Miron v. University of New Haven Police Department
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2007-09-25· cited 9×
• Ventetuolo v. Burke
  First Circuit· 1979-04-25· cited 7×
• Dalessio v. BT EQUIPMENT COMPANY
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1975-04-25· cited 4×
• Feinstein v. Brown
  D. Rhode Island· 2006-05-11· cited 1×
• Feller v. the Miriam Hospital
  Superior Court of Rhode Island· 2009-10-30

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bragg v. Warwick Shoppers World, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1967-03-20· cited 100×
• Ponticelli v. Mine Safety Appliance Co.
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1968-11-04· cited 35×