125 Md. App. 349 - Green v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
12 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably 153 Md. App. 210 - Carter v. Aramark Sports & Entertainment Services, Inc. (2003), 132 Md. App. 158 - College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Inc. v. Morabito Consultants, Inc. (2000)
12 district · 36 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Baker v. McCollan · Ohio v. Kentucky · King v. Bankerd · United Parcel Service, Inc. v. People's Counsel · Berkey v. Delia
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Malice” in this context requires a showing that “the official ‘intentionally performed an act without legal justification or excuse, but with an evil or rancorous motive influenced by hate, the purpose being to deliberately injure the plaintiff.’ ” ... Malice may be inferred from the surrounding circumstances.... But, “the mere assertion that an act ‘was done maliciously, or without just cause, or illegally, or with wanton disregard, or recklessly, or for improper motive’ is not sufficient.” ... In order to defeat immunity, the plaintiff “ ‘must allege with some clarity and precision those facts which make the act malicious.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Talley v. Farrell““Probable cause is a reasonable ground of suspicion supported by circumstances sufficiently strong in themselves to warrant a cautious [person] in believing that the accused is guilty.” ... It is equally clear that if the facts, and the inferences to be drawn therefrom, relied on to constitute probable cause are clear and undisputed, the question is one of law for the court; where the facts are contested, however, whether they are proved is a question for the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an official of a municipal corporation, while acting in a discretionary capacity, without malice, and within the scope of the official’s employment or authority shall be immune as an official or individual from any civil liability for the performance of the action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Talley v. Farrell
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.