Yetman v. English

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a statement of opinion is protected only if: (1) it could not reasonably be interpreted as stating actual fact; or (2) it is not provable as false
• holding that jury should determine whether ambiguous statements are fact or opinion
• stating that defamation case may proceed to the jury “only where there are truly two tenable views” of the statement at issue
• noting that statements are not actionable “[i]f interpreted as nothing more than rhetorical political invective”
• acknowledging considerable body of federal law, emanating from Gertz dictum, “holding that the expression of opinion is absolutely privileged under the first amendment”
• explaining that “assertions [that] employ ‘loose, 8 figurative or hyperbolic language’ . . . cannot reasonably be interpreted as stating or 9 implying actual facts” (quoting Milkovich v. Lorain J. Co., 497 U.S. 1, 21 (1990)

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• Turner v. Devlin
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1993-03-02· cited 54×
• Gail Bierman and Beth Weier v. Scott Weier and Author Solutions, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2013-01-18· cited 50×
• Burns v. Davis
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1999-08-10· cited 45×
• Ashton-Blair v. Merrill
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1996-05-28· cited 36×
• Haworth v. Feigon
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1993-04-06· cited 34×
• Sanchez v. Coxon
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1993-05-20· cited 30×
• Reynolds v. Reynolds
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2013-01-31· cited 30×
• Takieh M.D. v. O'Meara M.D.
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2021-08-10· cited 25×
• Spratt v. Northern Automotive Corp.
  D. Arizona· 1996-06-21· cited 24×
• Miller v. Servicemaster by Rees
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1992-10-15· cited 22×
• Spence v. Flynt
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1991-08-08· cited 21×
• State v. Stummer
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2008-10-09· cited 19×
• Empress Adult Video & Bookstore v. City of Tucson
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2002-11-27· cited 17×
• Chi v. Loyola University Medical Center
  N.D. Illinois· 2011-07-05· cited 14×
• Wendy Rogers v. Hon. mroz/pamela Young
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2022-02-01· cited 10×
• Hartzell v. Marana Unified School District
  Ninth Circuit· 2025-03-05· cited 8×
• Blk III, LLC v. Skelton
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2022-02-17· cited 5×

Cites

36 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×
• 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×
• Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts
  Supreme Court· 1967-10-09· cited 1,899×
• Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co.
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-21· cited 1,770×
• Harte-Hanks Communications, Inc. v. Connaughton
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-22· cited 1,025×
• Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell
  Supreme Court· 1988-02-24· cited 951×
• Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. v. Hepps
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-21· cited 858×
• Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Assn., Inc. v. Bresler
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 794×
• Old Dominion Branch No. 496 v. Austin
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-25· cited 723×
• Andrea Dworkin Priscilla Moree Judith Fouts v. Hustler Magazine Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 1989-01-24· cited 449×
• Bertell Ollman v. Rowland Evans, Robert Novak
  D.C. Circuit· 1984-12-06· cited 402×
• Brown v. Kelly Broadcasting Co.
  California Supreme Court· 1989-04-27· cited 341×
• Immuno AG. v. Moor-Jankowski
  New York Court of Appeals· 1991-01-15· cited 247×
• Robert C. White v. Fraternal Order of Police
  D.C. Circuit· 1990-09-19· cited 219×
• Rickman v. Modern American Mortgage Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1979-05-21· cited 215×
• Jerome R. Lewis v. Time Incorporated
  Ninth Circuit· 1983-07-12· cited 195×
• MacLeod v. Tribune Publishing Co.
  California Supreme Court· 1959-08-03· cited 182×
• King v. Globe Newspaper Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-08-17· cited 152×
• Cianci v. New Times Publishing Co.
  Second Circuit· 1980-07-11· cited 122×

Other cases named Yetman v. English

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Yetman v. English
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1989-08-15· cited 4×