Clayton v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[N]othing in ... common law suggests that the right to privacy is limited to unmarried individuals. When a person goes into the privacy of the bedroom, he or she has a right to the expectation of privacy in his or her seclusion.... As a spouse with equal rights to the use and access of the bedroom, it would not be illegal or tortious as an invasion of privacy for a spouse to open the door of the bedroom and view a spouse in bed.... However, the videotaping of a person without consent or awareness when there is an expectation of privacy goes beyond the rights of a spouse.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Perez · In Re the Marriage of Tigges

2. “does not depend upon any publicity given to the person whose interest is invaded or to his affairs ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re the Marriage of Tigges