Schnabel v. Meredith’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2016 · most notably Rosenbloom v. Metromedia, Inc. (1971), Time, Inc. v. Hill (1967)
6 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 Sidis v. FR Pub. Corporation · Waring v. WDAS Broadcasting Station, Inc. · Collins v. Dispatch Publishing Co. · Leverton v. Curtis Pub. Co. · Kilian v. Doubleday & Co.
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * one who unwillingly comes into the public eye because of his own fault, as in the case of a criminal, is subject to the same limitations upon his right to be let alone. Community custom achieves the same result with reference to one unjustly charged with crime or the subject of a striking catastrophe. Both groups of persons are the objects of legitimate public interest during a period of time after their conduct or misfortune has brought them to the public attention; until they have reverted to the lawful and unexciting life led, by the great, bulk of the community, they are subject to the privileges which publishers have to satisfy the curiosity of the public as to their leaders, heroes, villians and victims.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
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.