2 Ohio App. 3d 377 - Strutner v. Dispatch Printing Co.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

25 state decisions

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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “One who gives publicity to a matter concerning the private life of another is subject to liability to the other for invasion of his privacy, if the matter publicized is of a kind that (a) would be highly offensive to a reasonable person, and (b) is not of legitimate concern to the public.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Roe v. Heap, Unpublished Decision (5-11-2004) · 27 Ohio App. 3d 163 - Killilea v. Sears, Roebuck Co.

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
   e.g. 19 Ohio App. 3d 295 - Lambert v. Garlo · 27 Ohio App. 3d 163 - Killilea v. Sears, Roebuck Co.

3. “'Wrongful' does not require that the intrusion itself be wrongful in the sense that there is no right to make any intrusion. Rather, 'wrongful' may relate to the manner of the making of the intrusion * * *.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Roe v. Heap, Unpublished Decision (5-11-2004) · Smith v. Pierce Twp.