Rycroft v. Gaddy’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2002 · most notably Swinton Creek Nursery v. Edisto Farm Credit (1999), Snakenberg v. Hartford Casualty Ins. Co., Inc. (1989)
25 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 In Re Addonizio · Todd v. South Carolina Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance · Meetze Ex Rel. Golden v. Associated Press · Huggins v. Winn-Dixie Greenville, Inc. · 302 F. Supp. 418 - Peacock v. Retail Credit 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Some limits of this branch of the right of privacy appear to be fairly well marked out. The disclosure of the private facts must be a public disclosure, and not a private one; there must be, in other words, publicity. It is an invasion of his rights to publish in a newspaper that the plaintiff does not pay his debts, or to post a notice to that effect in a window on the public street, or to cry it aloud in the highway, but not to communicate the fact to the plaintiffs employer or to any other individual, or even to a small group, unless there is some breach of contract, trust or confidential relation which will afford an independent basis for relief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“three different causes of action can arise under the tort of invasion of the right of privacy: (1) wrongful appropriation of personality; (2) publicizing of private affairs of no legitimate public concern; and (3) wrongful intrusion into private affairs.”
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.