McGovern v. Van Riper’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably 133 S. Ct. 1958 - Maryland v. King (2013), 38 Cal. 2d 273 - Gill v. Curtis Publishing Co. (1952)
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Roberson v. . Rochester Folding Box Co. · 112 Cal. App. 285 - Melvin v. Reid · Pavesich v. New England Life Insurance · Vanderbilt v. Mitchell
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the right of an individual to be . . . protected from any wrongful intrusion into his [or her] private life which would outrage or cause mental suffering, shame or humiliation to a person of ordinary sensibilities.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is now well settled that the right of privacy having its origin in natural law, is immutable and absolute, and transcends the power of any authority to change or abolish it.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[C]riminal identification is said to have two main purposes: (1) The identification of the accused as the person who committed the crime for which he is being held; and, (2) the identification of the accused as the same person who has been previously charged with, or convicted of, other offenses against the criminal law”
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.