Yancey v. Hamilton

How courts have described this case

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

• an opinion that creates reasonable inference that undisclosed defamatory facts justify it is an actionable opinion
• “the court ‘must determine whether an expression of opinion is capable of bearing a defamatory meaning because it may reasonably be understood to imply the assertion of undisclosed facts which may justify the expressed opinion about the undisclosed facts.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Stringer v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-10-21· cited 149×
• Warford v. Lexington Herald-Leader Co.
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1990-04-26· cited 31×
• Lassiter v. Lassiter
  E.D. Kentucky· 2006-09-26· cited 21×
• Cromity v. Meiners
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2015-09-25· cited 15×
• Kentucky Kingdom Amusement Co. v. Belo Kentucky, Inc.
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-08-25· cited 10×
• Loftus v. Nazari
  E.D. Kentucky· 2014-05-13· cited 10×
• Buchholtz v. Dugan
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1998-09-11· cited 9×
• Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Brokerage Co. v. Skeeters
  W.D. Kentucky· 2005-10-20· cited 9×
• Desai v. Charter Commc'ns, LLC
  W.D. Kentucky· 2019-03-29· cited 8×
• Williams v. Blackwell
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2016-02-19· cited 7×
• Doe v. Coleman
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2014-06-20· cited 5×
• Palmer v. Alvarado
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2018-06-29· cited 5×
• White v. Manchester Enterprise, Inc.
  E.D. Kentucky· 1994-12-22· cited 4×
• General Electric Company v. Sargent & Lundy
  Sixth Circuit· 1990-12-14· cited 3×
• Pfannenstiel v. Osborne Publishing Co.
  D. Kansas· 1996-09-19· cited 3×
• Nicholas Sandmann v. Rolling Stone, LLC
  Sixth Circuit· 2023-08-16
• Andes Roofing, LLC v. Joseph Rusnak
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2025-11-21

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1964-03-09· cited 8,531×
• Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-25· cited 4,525×
• Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1984-04-30· cited 2,137×
• Rosenblatt v. Baer
  Supreme Court· 1966-02-21· cited 1,111×
• Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell
  Supreme Court· 1988-02-24· cited 951×
• Time, Inc. v. Hill
  Supreme Court· 1967-01-09· cited 933×
• Rosenbloom v. Metromedia, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-07· cited 896×
• Bertell Ollman v. Rowland Evans, Robert Novak
  D.C. Circuit· 1984-12-06· cited 402×
• McCall v. Courier-Journal & Louisville Times Co.
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1981-10-13· cited 160×
• Logan v. District of Columbia
  District of Columbia· 1978-03-27· cited 44×
• Wsaz, Inc. v. Gerald Lyons, Wsaz, Inc. v. Calvin Gearhart
  Sixth Circuit· 1958-04-07· cited 36×
• Gearhart v. WSAZ, Inc.
  E.D. Kentucky· 1957-03-09· cited 20×
• Beams v. Beams
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1910-06-17· cited 10×
• Deitchman v. Bowles
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1915-10-19· cited 10×
• Haynes v. McConnell
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1982-05-28· cited 2×