Hogin v. Cottingham’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Busby v. Truswal Systems Corp. (1989), 762 So. 2d 820 - Stevenson v. Precision Standard, Inc. (1999)
13 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 · Smith v. Doss · Norris v. Moskin Stores, Inc. · 435 So. 2d 705 - Phillips v. Smalley Maintenance Services, Inc. · Birmingham Broadcasting Co. v. Bell
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here must be something in the nature of prying or intrusion and the intrusion must be something which would be offensive or objectionable to a reasonable person. The thing into which there is intrusion or prying must be, and be entitled to be, private. Two primary factors are considered in determining whether or not an intrusion which effects access to private information is actionable. The first is the means used. The second is the defendant’s purpose for obtaining the information.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"1) If there has not been public or commercial use or publication, then the proper standard is whether there has been an 'intrusion upon the plaintiffs physical solitude or seclusion,' or a 'wrongful intrusion into one's private activities in such manner so as to outrage or to cause mental suffering, shame or humiliation to a person of ordinary sensibilities'; and 2) if there has been public or commercial use or publication of private information, then the proper standard is whether there has been 'unwarranted publicity,' 'unwarranted appropriation or exploitation of one's personality,' publication of private affairs not within the legitimate concern of the public, an intrusion into one's 'physical solitude or seclusion,' the placing of one in a 'false but not necessarily defamatory position in the public eye,' or an 'appropriation of some element of [one's] personality for commercial use.'"”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[There are] two separate standards for finding the tort of an invasion of privacy: 1) If there has not been public or commercial use or publication, then the proper standard is whether there has been an ‘intrusion upon the plaintiffs physical solitude or seclusion,’ or a ‘wrongful intrusion into one’s private activities in such manner so as to outrage or to cause mental suffering, shame or humiliation to a person of ordinary sensibilities’ and 2) if there has been public or commercial use or publication of private information, then the proper standard is whether there has been ‘unwarranted publicity,’ ‘unwarranted appro priation or exploitation of one’s personality,’ publication of private affairs not within the legitimate concern of the public, an intrusion into one’s ‘physical solitude or seclusion,’ the placing of one in a ‘false but not necessarily defamatory position in the public eye,’ or an ‘appropriation of some element of [one’s] personality for commercial use.’”
2 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.