Hanrahan v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 10 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Jacron Sales Co. v. Sindorf (1976), Marchesi v. Franchino (1978)
7 federal appellate · 10 district · 48 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 Baltimore Transit Co. v. State Ex Rel. Castranda · Coleman v. Newark Morning Ledger Co. · Fresh v. Cutter · Jones v. Federal Paper Board Co. · Peurifoy v. Congressional Motors, Inc.
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n occasion is conditionally privileged when the circumstances are such as to lead any one of several persons having a common interest in a particular subject matter correctly or reasonably to believe that facts exist which another sharing such common interest is entitled to know.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Stated in another fashion, a communication is conditionally privileged when the circumstances induce a reasonable belief that the recipient is one to whom the publisher is under a legal duty to publish the defamatory matter or is a person to whom its publication is otherwise within the general standards of decent conduct.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““has the right notwithstanding the privileged character of the communication to go to the jury, if there be evidence tending to show actual malice, as where the words unreasonably impute crime, or the occasion of their utterance is such as to indicate, by its unnecessary publicity or otherwise, a purpose wrongfully to defame the plaintiff____ Or, malice may be established by showing that the publication contained matter not relevant to the occasion.... Expressions in excess of what the occasion warrants do not per se take away the privilege, but such evidence may be excess of malice.... ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.