New York Times Company v. Sullivan

Decided August 30, 1962. Robert B. Harwood wrote the opinion for the court.

144 So. 2d 25 · Cited 75 times

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Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

• International Shoe Co. v. Washington · 326 U.S. 310
• Johnson Publishing Co. v. Davis · 124 So. 2d 441
• Webb v. Gray · 181 Ala. 408
• Boyd v. Warren Paint & Color Co. · 49 So. 2d 559
• White v. Birmingham Post Co. · 172 So. 649
• Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire · 315 U.S. 568
• Hess v. Pawloski · 274 U.S. 352
• Green v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Co. · 205 U.S. 530
• Old Wayne Mut. Life Assn. of Indianapolis v. McDonough · 204 U.S. 8
• Scripto, Inc. v. Carson · 362 U.S. 207
• Henry L. Doherty & Co. v. Goodman · 294 U.S. 623
• Liberty National Life Insurance Company v. Weldon · 100 So. 2d 696
• W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Co. v. Rattray · 192 So. 851
• Olcese v. Justice's Court of the First Judicial Twp. · 103 P. 317
• Dyer v. State · 4 So. 2d 311
• Housing Authority v. Decatur Land Co. · 258 Ala. 607
• Gross v. Cantor · 200 N.E. 592
• Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Co. v. Friedman · 187 Ala. 562
• Marr v. Putnam · 246 P.2d 509
• De Moville v. Merchants & Farmers Bank · 186 So. 704
• Reeves v. State · 68 So. 2d 14
• Conway v. Robinson · 113 So. 531
• Weir v. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen · 129 So. 267
• Alabama Gas Co. v. Jones · 13 So. 2d 873
• Ex Parte Emerson · 121 So. 2d 914

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• Hales v. First Appalachian Corp. · 494 F. Supp. 330
• Love v. Rehfus · 946 N.E.2d 1
• Stockwell v. Page Aircraft Maintenance, Inc. · 212 F. Supp. 102
• Ott v. Fox · 362 So. 2d 836
• McLeod v. State · 581 So. 2d 1144
• DeSotacho, Inc. v. Valnit Industries, Inc. · 350 So. 2d 447
• Grayson v. Curtis Publishing Co. · 436 P.2d 756
• Semo Aviation, Inc. v. Southeastern Airways Corp. · 360 So. 2d 936
• Liberty Nat. Life Ins. Co. v. Daugherty · 840 So. 2d 152
• Mahnke v. Northwest Publications, Inc. · 160 N.W.2d 1
• McRee v. Woodward Iron Company · 182 So. 2d 209
• Maner v. Maner · 189 So. 2d 336
• Gilmer v. Salter · 235 So. 2d 813
• Deaver v. Hinel · 391 N.W.2d 128
• Fitch v. Voit · 624 So. 2d 542
• Rainey v. Ford Motor Credit Company · 313 So. 2d 179
• General Finance Corporation v. Bradwell · 186 So. 2d 150
• Speigle v. Chrysler Credit Corporation · 323 So. 2d 360
• Metzger Brothers, Inc. v. Friedman · 261 So. 2d 398
• Chambers v. Culver · 272 So. 2d 236
• Hatcher v. Camp · 187 So. 2d 232

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