Ramunno v. Cawley

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that where a complaint fails to state a claim as to an underlying tort, a civil conspiracy claim must be dismissed
• determining that the alleged defamatory statements could reasonably be understood as implying the plaintiff owned a sizable amount of substandard rental housing
• explaining that “civil conspiracy is not an independent cause of action . . . it must arise from some underlying wrong”
• determining that the alleged defamatory statements could reasonably be understood as implying the plaintiff owned a sizable amount of substandard rental housing
• stating that a court reviewing a motion to dismiss should “ignore conclusory allegations that lack specific supporting factual allegations”
• stating that the Superior Court failed to give proper inferences and improperly substituted its own views for that of the fact-finder, and reversing because the Superior Court “strayed from the time-honored rules governing motions to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(6

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

288 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Savor, Inc. v. FMR Corp.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2002-12-18· cited 706×
• Kuroda v. SPJS Holdings, L.L.C.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2009-04-15· cited 353×
• Doe v. Cahill
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2005-10-05· cited 267×
• Lord v. Souder
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2000-03-24· cited 143×
• Cincinnati SMSA Ltd. Partnership v. Cincinnati Bell Cellular Systems Co.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-04-30· cited 92×
• Total Care Physicians, P.A. v. O'Hara
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2001-03-23· cited 68×
• Lipson v. Anesthesia Services, P.A.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2001-10-03· cited 45×
• Helman v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-11-07· cited 41×
• Tracinda Corp. v. DAIMLERCHRYSLER AG
  D. Delaware· 2002-03-22· cited 32×
• Kuhn Construction Co. v. Ocean & Coastal Consultants, Inc.
  D. Delaware· 2012-02-14· cited 31×
• Agar v. Judy
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2017-01-19· cited 28×
• Johnson v. Preferred Professional Insurance Co.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2014-02-17· cited 18×
• McCall v. Chesapeake Energy Corp.
  S.D. New York· 2011-09-13· cited 14×
• Miller v. Greenwich Capital Financial Products, Inc. (In Re American Business Financial Services, Inc.)
  D. Delaware· 2007-02-13· cited 13×
• Eames v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance
  D. Delaware· 2006-02-02· cited 10×
• Capano Management Co. v. Transcontinental Insurance
  D. Delaware· 1999-12-09· cited 10×
• Deborah Thomson v. Jane Doe
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2015-07-06· cited 4×
• Stiner v. University of Delaware
  D. Delaware· 2003-01-16· cited 3×
• Lisowski v. Bayhealth Medical Center, Inc.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2016-05-11· cited 3×
• Wiggins v. Physiologic Assessment Services, LLC
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2016-06-03· cited 3×

Cites

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

• Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-25· cited 4,525×
• Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co.
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-21· cited 1,770×
• Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell
  Supreme Court· 1988-02-24· cited 951×
• Bertell Ollman v. Rowland Evans, Robert Novak
  D.C. Circuit· 1984-12-06· cited 402×
• Spence v. Funk
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1978-12-21· cited 333×
• In Re Santa Fe Pacific Corp. Shareholder Litigation
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1995-11-22· cited 306×
• Grobow v. Perot
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1988-03-15· cited 295×
• Unitrin, Inc. v. American General Corp.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1995-01-11· cited 223×
• In Re Tri-Star Pictures, Inc., Litigation
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-12-08· cited 169×
• King v. Globe Newspaper Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-08-17· cited 152×
• Rabkin v. Philip A. Hunt Chemical Corp.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1985-09-23· cited 141×
• Solomon v. Pathe Communications Corp.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-01-04· cited 133×
• In Re USACafes, L.P. Litigation
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1991-06-07· cited 117×
• West v. Thomson Newspapers
  Utah Supreme Court· 1994-03-22· cited 113×
• Precision Air, Inc. v. Standard Chlorine of Delaware, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1995-02-09· cited 65×
• Gannett Co., Inc. v. Re
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1985-06-10· cited 51×
• Riley v. Moyed
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1987-06-25· cited 39×
• Petula v. Mellody
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-03-11· cited 33×
• Near East Side Community Organization v. Hair
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1990-06-28· cited 29×
• Cansler v. Grove Manufacturing Co.
  Supreme Court· 1988-03-21· cited 27×