Spahn v. Julian Messner, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably 4 Cal. 3d 529 - Briscoe v. Reader's Digest Association, Inc. (1971), 25 Cal. 3d 860 - Guglielmi v. Spelling-Goldberg Productions (1979)
29 federal appellate · 11 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Time, Inc. v. Hill · Epton v. New York
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Bjefore recovery by a public figure may be had for an unauthorized presentation of his life, it must be shown, in addition to the other requirements of the statute, that the presentation is infected with material and substantial falsification and that the work was published with knowledge of such falsification or with a reckless disregard for the truth” (Spahn v. Julian Messner, Inc., 21 N.Y.2d 124 , 127, 286 N.Y.S.2d 882 , 283. N.E.2d 840 [1967] [emphasis added]).”
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.