Hunt v. Lobby’s Empirical Analysis
720 F.2d 631 · 1983
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably Harte-Hanks Communications, Inc. v. Connaughton (1989), Batson v. Shiflett (1992)
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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 · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · St. Amant v. Thompson · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts
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.
“[Rjeckless conduct is not measured by whether a reasonably prudent man would have published, or would have investigated before publishing. There must be sufficient evidence to permit the conclusion that the defendant in fact entertained serious doubts as to the truth of his publication.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Our research confirms that Florida is one of those states that requires a form of common law malice to sustain an award for punitive damages. The Florida courts have concluded that ‘In order to award punitive damages in a libel action, ill will, hostility or an evil intention to defame and injure, must be present.’ Matthews v. Deland State Bank, 334 So.2d 164, 166 (Fla. 1 st DCA 1976). See also, Brown v. Fawcett Publ’ns, Inc., 196 So.2d 465, 472-73 (Fla. 2d DCA 1967), cert. denied, 201 So.2d 557 (Fla.1967). While the Florida law is not without ambiguity, it appears that proof of this type of malice may come from two sources: the publication itself and extrinsic evidence concerning the defendant’s feelings toward the plaintiff. Id. Therefore, a jury instruction on the common law malice necessary to support punitive damages should focus the jury’s attention on the defendant’s feelings of ill will toward the plaintiff, considering ‘the evidence produced at trial’ and the ‘character of the publication itself.’ Matthews, 334 So.2d at 166 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“However, when an article is not in the category of `hot news,' that is, information that must be printed immediately or it will lose its newsworthy value, `actual malice may be inferred when the investigation for a story ... was grossly inadequate in the circumstances'”
1 later decision 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.