Koussevitzky v. Allen, Towne & Heath, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably Time, Inc. v. Hill (1967), Rosemont Enterprises Inc. v. Random House, Inc. (1966)
11 federal appellate · 33 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 Roberson v. . Rochester Folding Box Co. · Black & Yates, Inc. v. Mahogany Ass'n · Sidis v. FR Pub. Corporation · Binns v. Vitagraph Co. of America · Lahiri v. Daily Mirror, Inc.
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Article 5. Right of Privacy § 50. Right of privacy — 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, or if a minor of his or her parent or guardian, is guilty of a misdemeanor. § 51. Action for injunction and for damages. — Any person whose name, portrait or picture is used within this state for adver tising purposes or for the purposes of trade without the written consent first obtained as above provided may maintain an equitable action in the supreme court of this state against the person, firm or corporation so using his name,. portrait or picture, to prevent and restrain the use thereof; and may also sue and recover damages for any injuríes sustained by reason of such use and if the defendant shall have knowingly used such person’s name, portrait or picture in such manner as is forbidden or declared to be unlawful by the last section, the jury, in its discretion, may award exemplary damages . ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]ll publications presumably are operated for profit....”
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.