Cates v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 624 So. 2d 1041 - Thomas v. BSE Indus. Contractors, Inc. (1993), Busby v. Truswal Systems Corp. (1989)
18 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 American Road Serv. Co. v. Inmon · Donald v. City National Bank of Dothan · Norris v. Moskin Stores, Inc. · 333 So. 2d 129 - Tolbert v. Gulsby · 378 So. 2d 718 - Campbell v. Alabama Power 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“intentionally or recklessly causes severe emotional distress to another.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“`the right of a person to be free from unwarranted publicity,' or `the unwarranted appropriation or exploitation of one's personality, the publicizing of one's private affairs with which the public has no legitimate concern, or the wrongful intrusion into one's private activities in such manner as to outrage or cause mental suffering, shame or humiliation to a person of ordinary sensibilities. '”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`It is suggested in Prosser, Law of Torts 637-39 (2nd ed.1955), that the invasion of privacy tort consists in fact of four distinct wrongs, (1)”
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.