Peroutka v. Streng

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the opinion is protected “so long as it does not reasonably indicate an assertion of the existence of other, defamatory, facts that would justify the forming of the opinion.”
• Article Forty is to be treated in pari materia with the First Amendment.
• “If the facts from which a defendant forms his or her opinion are given or are readily available and those facts cannot be proved false, the defendant is not subject to liability for the opinion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Daniel C. Murray v. United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, Local 400 Donald Cash Christian Sauter
  Fourth Circuit· 2002-05-10· cited 102×
• Piscatelli v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-01-23· cited 95×
• Thacker v. City of Hyattsville
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2000-11-14· cited 71×
• Carter v. Aramark Sports & Entertainment Services, Inc.
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2003-11-06· cited 52×
• Alexander v. Washington Gas Light Co.
  District of Columbia· 2006-02-23· cited 38×
• Abbott v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2010-02-25· cited 18×
• Davenport v. Sallie Mae, Inc.
  D. Maryland· 2015-06-05· cited 18×
• Lindenmuth v. McCreer
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2017-07-26· cited 16×
• Szot v. Allstate Insurance
  D. Maryland· 2001-08-24· cited 8×
• Piscatelli v. Smith
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2011-01-27· cited 7×
• Durham v. Rapp
  D. Maryland· 2014-12-09· cited 4×
• In re Tribune Media Co.
  D. Delaware· 2016-05-25· cited 4×
• Wheeler v. Twenty-First Century Fox
  S.D. Illinois· 2018-08-02· cited 1×
• Murray v. United Food Workers
  Fourth Circuit· 2002-06-04
• Elon Musk v. Benjamin Brody
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2026-03-20

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1964-03-09· cited 8,531×
• Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-25· cited 4,525×
• Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1984-04-30· cited 2,137×
• Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts
  Supreme Court· 1967-10-09· cited 1,899×
• Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co.
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-21· cited 1,770×
• Freedman v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-01· cited 1,485×
• Rosenbloom v. Metromedia, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-07· cited 896×
• Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. v. Greenmoss Builders, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-26· cited 866×
• Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. v. Hepps
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-21· cited 858×
• Heat & Power Corp. v. Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-09-12· cited 268×
• Batson v. Shiflett
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-03-12· cited 236×
• Berkey v. Delia
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-03-26· cited 172×
• Shapiro v. Massengill
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1995-07-06· cited 111×
• Potomac Valve & Fitting Inc. Raymond C. McGarvey v. Crawford Fitting Company Dibert Valve & Fitting Company, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 1987-09-24· cited 80×
• Hearst Corporation v. Hughes
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1983-09-15· cited 62×
• Kapiloff v. Dunn
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-07-23· cited 57×
• McDermott v. Hughley
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-08-10· cited 48×
• Chesapeake Publishing Corp. v. Williams
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-07-24· cited 39×
• A. S. Abell Co. v. Barnes
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1970-06-05· cited 33×
• Freedman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1964-02-10· cited 25×