Hall v. Post’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably 18 Cal. 4th 200 - Shulman v. Group W Productions, Inc. (1998), 155 N.C. App. 462 - Toomer v. Garrett (2002)
4 federal appellate · 35 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 · Roe v. Wade · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Thornhill v. Alabama
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One who intentionally intrudes, physically or otherwise, upon the solitude or seclusion of another or his private affairs or concerns, is subject to liability to the other for invasion of his privacy, if the intrusion would be highly offensive to a reasonable person.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“1. Appropriation for the defendant’s advantage of the plaintiffs name or likeness; 2. Intrusion upon plaintiffs seclusion or solitude or into his or her private affairs; 3. Public disclosure of private facts about the plaintiff; 4. Publicity which places the plaintiff in a false light in the public eye.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[e]very individual has some phases of his life and his activities and some facts about himself that he does not expose to the public eye.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.