Honan v. Dimyan’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Murray v. Taylor (2001), Honan v. Dimyan (2001)
4 district · 55 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 Glasser v. United States · United Families of America v. Kendrick · United Families of America v. Kendrick · DeLaurentis v. City of New Haven · Williams Ford, Inc. v. Hartford Courant 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To establish invasion of privacy by false light, the [plaintiff is] required to show that (a) the false light in which the other was placed would be highly offensive to a reasonable person, and (b) the actor had knowledge of or acted in reckless disregard as to the falsity of the publicized matter and the false light in which the other would be placed.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“Our Supreme Court has described the four types of invasion of privacy: (1) appropriation, for the defendant's benefit or advantage, of the plaintiff's name or likeness; (2) intrusion upon the plaintiff's physical solitude or seclusion; (3) publicity, of a highly objectionable kind, given to private information about the plaintiff even though it is true and no action would lie for defamation; and (4) publicity which places the plaintiff in a false light in the public eye.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“An action for abuse of process lies against any person using a legal process against another in an improper manner or to accomplish a purpose for which it was not designed .”
4 later decisions 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.