76 Md. App. 339 - Hanlon v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2018
3 district · 13 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 501
Relies on Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Rosenbloom v. Metromedia, Inc. · Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. v. Greenmoss Builders, Inc. · Jacron Sales Co. v. Sindorf · Embrey v. Holly
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Wjhether a public or private figure, appellant was entitled to an instruction on presumed damages because he proved that the defamatory publication was made with knowledge of its falsity or with reckless disregard of the truth (constitutional malice), i.e., a person whether a public or private figure, may recover presumed and punitive damages when he proves “constitutional malice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McClure v. Lovelace“presumption of harm to reputation ... arises from the publication of words actionable per se . A trier of fact is not constitutionally barred from awarding damages based on that presumption in [an actual] malice case.”
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.