Bennett v. Norban’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably In Re B. (1978), 335 Pa. Super. 141 - Harris by Harris v. Easton Pub. Co. (1984)
8 federal appellate · 52 state decisions — followed in 11 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 182 Pa. Super. 86 - Hull v. Curtis Publishing Co. · Schnabel v. Meredith · MacK Appeal · Herst v. Borbidge
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He put his hand on her shoulder, put himself in position to block her path, and ordered her to take'off her coat, which, being frightened, she did. He then said: ‘What about your pockets?’ and reached into two pockets on the sides of her dress. Not finding anything, he took her purse from her hand, pulled her things out of it, peered into it, replaced the things, gave it back to her, mumbled something, and ran back into the store.” 151 A.2d at 477 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`The angry performance of defendant's agent was an unreasonable and serious interference with appellant's desire for anonymity and an intrusion beyond the limits of decency.' 151 A.2d at 479 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[U]nder such facts . . . the privacy of a presumably innocent woman is invaded by a charade on the public highway that destroys her seclusion and subjects her to humiliation by suggesting that she is a felon.”
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.