Sellers v. Time, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
423 F.2d 887 · 1970
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Chuy 77-1412 v. Philadelphia Eagles Football Club 77-1411 (1979), Bon Air Hotel, Inc. v. Time, Inc. (1970)
9 federal appellate · 6 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 · Birl v. Philadelphia Electric Co. · Sarkees v. Warner-West Corp. · Boyer v. Pitt Publishing Company · Scott-Taylor, Inc. v. Stokes
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Moreover, as the district judge properly noted, business golf is neither shocking nor shameful to the average reader of TIME. Indeed, it is a commonplace practice among professional men and politicians, as well as businessmen. For these reasons, we conclude that a Pennsylvania court would reject these innuendos according to the teaching of Sarkees v. Warner-West.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““While the article may have caused Sellers great personal annoyance, annoyance alone does not constitute defamation. Scott-Taylor, Inc. v. Stokes, 425 Pa. 426 , 229 A.2d 733 (1967).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.