Davis v. Glanton

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that party must demonstrate that information is crucial” to its case
• interpreting Hatehard, as permitting disclosure of all material pertaining to conversations with disclosed sources as long as the material cannot reasonably lead to the discovery of the identity of another, undisclosed source, or can be redacted to prevent such revelation
• interpreting Hatchard as permitting disclosure of all material pertaining to conversations with disclosed sources as long as the material cannot reasonably lead to the discovery of the identity of another, undisclosed source, or can be redacted to prevent such revelation
• holding burden to overcome privilege satisfied
• holding burden to overcome privilege satisfied
• disclosure of privileged source materials for newspaper article was proper where it was “material, relevant and necessary” to prove an element of plaintiff’s defamation claim, i.e., that the published remarks referred to plaintiffs

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Bowden
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-19· cited 46×
• People v. Pawlaczyk
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2000-01-21· cited 38×
• Castellani v. Scranton Times, LP
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-01-03· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Tyson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-05-29· cited 6×
• DiPaolo, D. v. Times Publishing
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-06-15· cited 5×
• Castellani v. Scranton Times L.P.
  Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas· 2005-06-03· cited 4×
• Melvin v. Doe
  Alleghany County Court of Common Pleas· 2000-11-15· cited 3×
• EQT CHAP v. EHS
  Montana Supreme Court· 2025-10-15

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1964-03-09· cited 8,531×
• United States v. Nixon
  Supreme Court· 1974-07-24· cited 4,095×
• United States v. Cuthbertson, Gerald M. Appeal of Cbs Inc., Third Party Witness
  Third Circuit· 1980-07-23· cited 198×
• Riley v. City of Chester
  Third Circuit· 1979-12-14· cited 112×
• Taylor and Selby Appeals
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-07-15· cited 79×
• Hatchard v. Westinghouse Broadcasting Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-15· cited 56×
• Frank v. Frank
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-03-07· cited 38×
• McMenamin v. Tartaglione
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-04-23· cited 21×