Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
243 federal appellate · 80 district · 151 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 877 later decisions (64 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Illinois v. Gates (1983), Ohio v. Roberts (1980)
243 federal appellate · 80 district · 151 state decisions — followed in 22 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Beck v. State of Ohio · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Perkins v. Benguet Consolidated Mining Co. · Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
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 877 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is closely analogous to the goals of patent and copyright law.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he rationale for [protecting the right of publicity] is the straight-forward one of preventing unjust enrichment by the theft of good will. No social purpose is served by having the defendant get free some aspect of the plaintiff that would have market value and for which he would normally pay.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is the product of [the owner's] own talents and energy, the end result of much time, effort, and expense.”
5 later decisions 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.