Bitsie Ex Rel. Bitsie v. Walston’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
5 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2016
5 district · 15 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 Conley v. Gibson · Goodman v. Brock Ex Rel. Estate of Brock · Balistrieri v. United States · Cason v. Baskin · Reed v. Real Detective Publishing 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right of privacy, including the right of an individual to be let alone and to keep secret his private communications, conversations and affairs, is a right the unwarranted invasion or violation of which gives rise to a common-law right of action for damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Liability exists only if the defendant's conduct was such that he should have realized that it would be offensive to persons of ordinary sensibilities... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a person who unreasonably and seriously interferes with another's interest in not having his affairs known to others, ... is liable to the other.”
1 later decision 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.