Weiner v. Doubleday & Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• reference to psychologist as a “big, fat ugly Jew” was “mere epithet” and not actionable in libel
• the phrase “big, fat ugly Jew” was found to be a “mere epithet” and non-actionable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Chau v. Lewis
  Second Circuit· 2014-11-14· cited 106×
• Weiner v. Doubleday & Co.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1989-12-14· cited 78×
• Jewell v. NYP Holdings, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 1998-10-01· cited 52×
• Chau v. Lewis
  S.D. New York· 2013-03-29· cited 16×
• Nacinovich v. Tullet & Tokyo Forex, Inc.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1999-01-26· cited 9×
• Rainbow v. WPIX, Inc.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2020-01-23· cited 5×
• Covino v. Hagemann
  New York Supreme Court· 1995-04-21· cited 4×
• Travers v. Shane
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 1995-07-10· cited 1×
• Griffith v. Daily Beast
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2023-05-16· cited 1×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-25· cited 4,525×
• Rinaldi v. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1977-07-14· cited 401×
• Steinhilber v. Alphonse
  New York Court of Appeals· 1986-10-23· cited 296×
• Chapadeau v. Utica Observer-Dispatch, Inc.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1975-12-04· cited 293×
• Karaduman v. Newsday, Inc.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1980-11-25· cited 134×
• Gaeta v. New York News Inc.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1984-06-12· cited 90×
• Tracy v. Newsday, Inc.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1959-01-08· cited 88×
• People ex rel. Arcara v. Cloud Books, Inc.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1986-12-18· cited 85×
• Parks v. Steinbrenner
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1987-07-23· cited 36×
• France v. St. Clare's Hospital & Health Center
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1981-07-09· cited 35×
• Robart v. Post-Standard
  New York Court of Appeals· 1981-01-08· cited 27×
• Robart v. Post-Standard
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1980-03-20· cited 22×
• Sprecher v. Dow Jones & Co.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1982-05-20· cited 15×