Cason v. Baskin’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Ettore v. Philco Television Broadcasting Corp. (1956), 347 Ill. App. 293 - Eick v. Perk Dog Food Co. (1952)
7 federal appellate · 38 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 Pavesich v. New England Life Insurance · Cason v. Baskin · Pan Atlantic Steamship Corp. v. Fyfe · Stanley v. State · Tampa Electric Company v. Ferguson
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The authorities we have quoted in support of the right of privacy recognize certain limitations upon that right. In 41 Am.Jur. 934, it is said: `The right of privacy is relative to the customs of the time and place, and it is determined by the norm of the ordinary man. The protection afforded by the law to this right must be restricted to "ordinary sensibilities," and cannot extend to supersensitiveness or agoraphobia. In order to constitute an invasion of the right of privacy, an act must be of such a nature as a reasonable man can see might and probably would cause mental distress and injury to anyone possessed of ordinary feelings and intelligence, situated in like circumstances as the complainant; and this question is to some extent one of law.' "And again, on page 935 of the same volume (41 Am.Jur.), the following appears: `The right of privacy does not prohibit the publication of matter which is of legitimate public or general interest. At some point the public interest in obtaining information becomes dominant over the individual's desire for privacy. It has been said that the truth may be spoken, written, or printed about all matters of a public nature, as well as matters of a private nature in which the public has a legitimate interest. However, the phrase "public or general interest," in this connection, does not mean mere curiosity.' "Various cases are cited in support of the text above quoted. And again, on pages 937-938 of the same volume, it is said: `One of th”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"It has been stated broadly that the right of privacy is designed to protect those persons with whose affairs the community has no legitimate concern from being dragged into an undesirable and undesired publicity, and to protect all persons from having matters which they may properly prefer to keep private made public against their will."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“create a public interest in an area or a community, and thereby justify the invasion of privacy of one who happens to live in that particular area or community.”
1 later decision 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.