Welling v. Weinfeld’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 185 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Burgess v. Fischer (2013), Ford Motor Credit Co. v. Ryan (2010)
10 federal appellate · 102 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
Relies on Yeager v. Local Union 20, Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen & Helpers of America · Cantrell v. Forest City Publishing Co. · Renwick v. News & Observer Publishing Co. · 173 W. Va. 699 - Crump v. Beckley Newspapers, Inc. · Cain v. Hearst Corp.
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 185 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one who gives publicity to a matter concerning another that places the other before the public in a false light is subject to liability to the other for invasion of his privacy if (a) the false light in which the other was placed would be highly offensive to a reasonable person, and (b) the actor had knowledge of or acted in reckless disregard as to the falsity of the publicized matter and the false light in which the other would be placed.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“either economic, political, or personal, in the outside world.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“1. The right of privacy is the right of a person to be let alone, to be free from unwarranted publicity, and to live without unwarranted interference by the public in matters with which the public is not necessarily concerned. "2. An actionable invasion of the right of privacy is the unwarranted appropriation or exploitation of one's personality, the publicizing of one's private affairs with which the public has no legitimate concern, or the wrongful intrusion into one's private activities in such a manner as to outrage or cause mental suffering, shame or humiliation to a person of ordinary sensibilities.”
2 later decisions 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.