99 Ohio App. 485 - Housh v. Peth’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions

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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “‘ ‘The right of privacy is the right of a person to be let alone, to be free from unwarranted publicity, and to live without unwarranted interference by the public in matters with which the public is not necessarily concerned. “* * * An actionable invasion of the right of privacy is the unwarranted appropriation or exploitation of one’s personality, the publicizing of one’s private affairs with which the public has no legitimate concern, or the wrongful intrusion into one’s private activities in such a manner as to outrage or cause mental suffering, shame or humiliation to a person of ordinary sensibilities.” Id. at paragraphs one and two of the syllabus.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 41 Ohio App. 3d 392 - Lynn v. Allied Corp. · 435 So. 2d 705 - Phillips v. Smalley Maintenance Services, Inc.

2. ““* * * a creditor or his representative initiates a campaign to harass and torment the debtor, telephones that debtor six or eight times every day at her home and place of employment — some of the calls as late as 11:45 P.M. — over a period of three weeks, telephones the debtor’s supervisors and informs them of the debt, and calls the debtor at her place of employment three times within a period of 15 minutes with a resultant threat of loss of employment.” [Debtor was a school teacher.] Id. at 341.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Household Finance Corp. v. Bridge