Smith v. Doss’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2014 · most notably Time, Inc. v. Hill (1967), 4 Cal. 3d 529 - Briscoe v. Reader's Digest Association, Inc. (1971)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 98 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Grosjean v. American Press Co. · Cason v. Baskin · Reed v. Real Detective Publishing Co. · Barber v. Time, Inc. · Lambert v. Jefferson
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think this analysis fundamentally consistent with our statement in the Doss case and reaffirmed in the Abernathy case, adopted from 41 Am.Jur. 925, that the right of privacy is ‘ “the right of a person to be free from unwarranted publicity,” or “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 manner as to outrage or cause mental suffering, shame, or humiliation to a person of ordinary sensibilities.” ’ [Emphasis added.]””
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he right of privacy does not prohibit the broadcast of matter which is of legitimate public or general interest. . “It does not exist * * * in the ordinary dissemination of news and events, nor in connection with the life of a person in whom the public has a rightful interest, nor where the information would be of public benefit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'[f]requently, the public has an interest in an individual which transcends his right to be left alone' and 'since the whole is greater than its component parts, privacy rights must often yield to public interest.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Doe v. Roe
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.