Telnikoff v. Matusevitch’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Baltimore Sun Co. v. Mayor of Baltimore (2000), Bowden v. Caldor, Inc. (1998)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 56 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co. · Lovell v. City of Griffin
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A comparison of English and present Maryland defamation law does not simply disclose a difference in one or two legal principles. Instead, present Maryland defamation law is totally different from English defamation law in virtually every significant respect. Moreover, the differences are rooted in historic and fundamental public policy differences concerning freedom of the press and speech.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the established principle that a court will not decide a constitutional issue when a case can properly be disposed of on a non-constitutional ground”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“one of fact, and the burden is on the defendant to prove ‘fair comment' ”; and there is”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.