Stephano v. News Group Publications, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Pirone v. MacMillan, Inc. (1990), Herman Miller, Inc. v. Palazzetti Imports & Exports, Inc. (2001)
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 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.
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By its terms, the statute applies to any use of a person’s picture or portrait for advertising or trade purposes whenever the defendant has not obtained the person’s written consent to do so____ Since the “right of publicity” is encompassed under the Civil Rights Law as an aspect of the right of privacy, which, as noted, is exclusively statutory in this state, the plaintiff cannot claim an independent common law right of publicity.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“newsworthy events or matters of public interest”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it has no real relationship to the article ... or ... the article is an advertisement in disguise.”
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.