Abernathy v. Thornton’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably Brenda Cash v. Sylvia Smith (2000), Norris v. Moskin Stores, Inc. (1961)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 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 Smith v. Doss · 35 Cal. App. 2d 304 - Metter v. Los Angeles Examiner · Birmingham Broadcasting Co. v. Bell · Jones v. Herald Post Company
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`no privacy in that which is already public.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`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. '”
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.