Robert C. McFarlane v. Esquire Magazine

How courts have described this case

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

• circulation in the District of a magazine containing an allegedly libelous article is not a sufficient “act” to support personal jurisdiction where the article was written outside of the District and delivered to a magazine outside of the District for publication
• “The standard of actual malice 3 is a daunting one.”
• sharing facts undermining the credibility of the article’s source

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Caribbean Broadcasting System, Ltd. v. Cable & Wireless PLC
  D.C. Circuit· 1998-07-17· cited 401×
• Prakazrel Michel v. NYP Holdings, Inc.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2016-03-07· cited 136×
• Flynn v. Greg Anthony Construction Co.
  Sixth Circuit· 2003-11-07· cited 105×
• John Chaiken and Marilyn Chaiken v. Vv Publishing Corp. D/B/A the Village Voice, Robert Friedman, Modiin Publishing House D/B/A Maariv, and Ron Dagoni
  Second Circuit· 1997-07-21· cited 104×
• Vincent Forras v. Imam Rauf
  D.C. Circuit· 2016-02-12· cited 71×
• Talley v. Time, Inc.
  Tenth Circuit· 2019-05-08· cited 59×
• Robert C. McFarlane v. Sheridan Square Press, Inc.
  D.C. Circuit· 1996-08-16· cited 56×
• Capital Bank International Ltd. v. Citigroup, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 2003-08-04· cited 52×
• Derek Harvey v. CNN
  Fourth Circuit· 2022-09-02· cited 52×
• Milan Jankovic v. International Crisis Group
  D.C. Circuit· 2016-05-10· cited 48×
• Terra International, Inc. v. Mississippi Chemical Corp.
  N.D. Iowa· 1996-04-05· cited 47×
• Mary Erwin-Simpson v. AirAsia Berhad
  D.C. Circuit· 2021-01-19· cited 45×
• Lohrenz, Carey v. Donnelly, Elaine
  D.C. Circuit· 2003-12-12· cited 44×
• CBS Corp. v. Federal Communications Commission
  Third Circuit· 2008-07-21· cited 43×
• Howard v. Antilla
  First Circuit· 2002-06-28· cited 37×
• Brunson v. Kalil & Co., Inc.
  District of Columbia· 2005-11-18· cited 35×
• Zimmerman v. Al Jazeera America, LLC
  District of Columbia· 2017-03-31· cited 31×
• Freedman v. Suntrust Banks, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 2015-09-21· cited 30×
• Christiana Tah v. Global Witness Publishing, Inc.
  D.C. Circuit· 2021-03-19· cited 30×
• Lohrenz v. Donnelly
  District of Columbia· 2002-08-16· cited 26×

Cites

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

• Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-25· cited 135,235×
• New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1964-03-09· cited 8,531×
• Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno
  Supreme Court· 1982-01-25· cited 4,581×
• Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-25· cited 4,525×
• Calder v. Jones
  Supreme Court· 1984-03-20· cited 3,198×
• Keeton v. Hustler Magazine, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1984-03-20· cited 2,597×
• Harte-Hanks Communications, Inc. v. Connaughton
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-22· cited 1,025×
• Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. v. Greenmoss Builders, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-26· cited 866×
• Hutchinson v. Proxmire
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-26· cited 738×
• Naartex Consulting Corporation, Russell Huff v. James G. Watt, Secretary of Interior
  D.C. Circuit· 1983-11-29· cited 490×
• The Washington Post Company v. Eugene J. Keogh
  D.C. Circuit· 1966-07-28· cited 300×
• Cantrell v. Forest City Publishing Co.
  Supreme Court· 1974-12-18· cited 231×
• Robert C. White v. Fraternal Order of Police
  D.C. Circuit· 1990-09-19· cited 219×
• Liberty Lobby, Inc. v. Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
  D.C. Circuit· 1988-02-05· cited 205×
• Tavoulareas v. Piro
  D.C. Circuit· 1987-03-13· cited 185×
• Kent B. Crane v. Archie Carr, III
  D.C. Circuit· 1987-03-27· cited 163×
• Environmental Research International, Inc. v. Lockwood Greene Engineers, Inc.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1976-03-26· cited 151×
• United States v. Lawrence Daniel Caldwell, A/K/A Thomas E. Morgan, (Two Cases). United States of America v. Eros A. Timm, (Two Cases)
  D.C. Circuit· 1976-09-23· cited 132×
• Asarco, Inc. And Hansa Marine Insurance Co., Etc. v. Glenara, Ltd. And Anglo-Eastern Management Services, Ltd.
  Fifth Circuit· 1990-09-14· cited 130×
• Elmer Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 1982-06-16· cited 101×