448 Pa. Super. 276 - Maier v. Maretti’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Burton v. Teleflex Inc. (2013), 1999 Pa. Super. 141 - Rush v. Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. (1999)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 54 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 In Re Nomination Petition of Wesley · 334 Pa. Super. 295 - Agriss v. Roadway Express, Inc. · 311 Pa. Super. 50 - Rybas v. Wapner · 276 Pa. Super. 527 - Beckman v. Dunn · 417 Pa. Super. 316 - Rutherfoord v. Presbyterian-University Hospital
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] communication is defamatory if it tends to harm the reputation of another as to lower him in the estimation of the community or to deter third persons from associating or dealing with him.... A communication is also defamatory if it ascribes to another conduct, character or a condition that would adversely affect his fitness for the proper conduct of his proper business, trade or profession.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“In the present litigation, appellant was suspended for refusal to work on Sundays and had filed an EEOC complaint; therefore, both appellee as appellant’s supervisor and Sears’ branch manager and personnel director had a common interest in appellant. As a supervisor, appellee correctly believed the branch manager had a right to know about incidents involving appellant. Furthermore, this court in Rutherfoord v. Presbyterian-University [, 417 Pa.Super. 316 , 612 A.2d 500 (1992) ] concluded that communications among management-level persons concerning employee’s job performance were necessary for the operation of the department and therefore privileged.[ 5 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“§ 870. Liability for Intended Consequences-General Principle One who intentionally causes injury to another is subject to liability to the other for that injury, if his conduct is generally culpable and not justifiable under the circumstances. This liability may be imposed although the actor’s conduct does not come within a traditional category of tort liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.