Swate v. Schiffers

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that newspaper articles were admissible in a defamation action to show that the plaintiff “already had a terrible reputation” and that the statements complained about “were not even defamatory”
• rejecting defamation plaintiff’s contention that newspaper articles were inadmissible as hearsay, as the articles were “hearsay only if offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted therein” and were “admissible as nonhearsay” if offered for other purposes
• “[T]he earlier newspaper articles ... describe conduct that would have ruined [the plaintiffs] reputation prior to the publication of [the defendants’] article.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Chang v. Linh Nguyen
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2001-12-20· cited 39×
• Cottrell v. NAT. COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASS'N
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2007-06-01· cited 37×
• Mustang Athletic Corp. v. Monroe
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2004-05-13· cited 21×
• UTV of San Antonio, Inc. v. Ardmore, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2002-05-29· cited 21×
• Sisley v. Seattle School District No. 1
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2012-07-30· cited 18×
• Bunton v. Bentley
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2003-09-05· cited 16×
• Hearst Corp. v. Skeen
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2004-03-18· cited 10×
• Cummins v. SUNTRUST CAPITAL MARKETS, INC.
  S.D. New York· 2009-08-20· cited 9×
• Inside Radio, Inc. v. Clear Channel Communications, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 2002-07-09
• the Hearst Corporation D/B/A the Houston Chronicle Publishing Company, and Evan Moore v. Jack Skeen, Jr., David E. Dobbs, and Alicia Cashell
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2004-03-18
• Delia A. Bandy v. Paul A. White, D.C. and Nutrition Center, Inc., D/B/A Nutri-West
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2002-07-26
• Mustang Athletic Corp. Individually and D/B/A Mustang Sports and/or Mustang Athletic Club v. Karen Monroe, Individually and A/N/F of Cameron Monroe
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2004-05-13
• Unnamed case
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2007-11-29
• Kristofer Thomas Kastner v. Gutter Management Inc., Guttermaxx, L.P., Frank Fulco, Jack Heath, Russell Lund, and Jim McLaughlin
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2010-11-04
• Ronald G. Hole v. William L. Hubbard
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2015-04-01
• Theaola Robinson v. KTRK Television, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2015-09-25
• in Re Benevis, LLC, Dentistry of Brownsville, P.C., and Kool Smiles, P.C.
  Tex. App. Ct., 15th Dist.· 2015-07-24

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1964-03-09· cited 8,531×
• Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1985-05-01· cited 7,748×
• Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-25· cited 4,525×
• McConnell v. Southside Independent School District
  Texas Supreme Court· 1993-09-10· cited 1,797×
• Carr v. Brasher
  Texas Supreme Court· 1989-05-10· cited 1,433×
• Swilley v. Hughes
  Texas Supreme Court· 1972-10-04· cited 826×
• Leyendecker & Associates, Inc. v. Wechter
  Texas Supreme Court· 1984-12-05· cited 363×
• McIlvain v. Jacobs
  Texas Supreme Court· 1990-09-06· cited 183×
• Doubleday & Co., Inc. v. Rogers
  Texas Supreme Court· 1984-07-11· cited 118×
• Schauer v. Memorial Care Systems
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1993-03-18· cited 83×
• Lesbrookton, Inc. v. Jackson
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 1990-10-02· cited 48×
• Fair Woman, Inc. v. Transland Management Corp.
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1989-02-01· cited 13×