Kline v. Robert M. McBride & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1985
5 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 Gitlow v. People of the State of New York · Roberson v. . Rochester Folding Box Co. · People v. . Most · Rhodes v. . Sperry Hutchinson Co. · Damron v. Doubleday, Doran & Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[a] person, firm or corporation that uses for advertising purposes, or for the purposes of trade, the name, portrait or picture of any living person without having first obtained the written consent of such person ... is guilty of a misdemeanor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The law was not passed with the idea of interfering with the circulation of newspapers or the publication of books within proper limits, and the use of “local color” was not outlawed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roosevelt v. Comm'r
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.