Spahn v. Julian Messner. Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2007
5 federal appellate · 6 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 Gautier v. Pro-Football, Inc. · Binns v. Vitagraph Co. of America · Koussevitzky v. Allen, Towne & Heath, Inc. · Wallach v. Bacharach
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““engrafted upon [the statute are] certain privileged uses or exemptions . [f. e.] matters of news, history, biography, and other factual subjects of public interest despite the necessary references to the names, portraits, identities, or histories of living persons.” Spahn v. Julian Messner, Inc., 23 A.D.2d 216, 219 , 260 N.Y.S.2d 451, 453 (1st Dep’t 1965) [hereinafter cited as Spahn ]. 7”
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.