Taggart v. Wadleigh-Maurice, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
489 F.2d 434 · 1973
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2021
5 federal appellate ·
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 · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · Rosenblatt v. Baer · Rosenbloom v. Metromedia, Inc. · Time, Inc. v. Hill
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Judgment for defendant] . . ., if it is to be made, should be made on a record in which the facts have been fully developed. Only with such a record can the necessary balance between the conflicting rights of personal privacy and of freedom of expression properly be struck. We realize that requiring the defendants to defend in a trial rather than to obtain summary judgment puts them to additional expense, and arguably subjects their first amendment rights, should those rights ultimately be held to prevail over [plaintiff’s] . . . right to privacy, to that much extra “chill.” In the context of the problem — their commercial exploitation of [plaintiff’s] allegedly induced performance — this degree of “chill” seems to us de minimus when compared with the unsatisfactory alternative of ruling on a potentially serious conflict between legally protected rights without a complete record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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