"Light and air are things of necessity, while prospect and privacy are but things of delight," common law maxim quoted in Jones v. Tapling, Reports of Cases Argued in the English Common Law, Vol CIV (1862), 838.
Selected Cases
Prince Albert v. Strange, 1 McN. & G. 25 (1849)
Jones v. Tapling, Reports of Cases Argued in the English Common Law, Vol CIV (1862)
State v. A.B. Rhodes, 61 N.C. 453 (1868)
Bradwell v. Illinois, 83 U.S. 130 (1872)
De May et al. v. Roberts, 46 Mich. 146 (1881)
Pollard v. Photographic Co., L. R. 40 Ch. Div. 345 (1888)
Union Pacific Railway Company v. Botsford, 141 U. S. 250
(1891)
Schuyler v. Curtis, 15 N.Y. 781 (1891)
Schuyler v. Curtis, 147 N.Y. 434; 42 N.E. 22 (1895)
Roberson v. Rochester Folding Box Co., 71 N.Y.; 64 N.E. 442; N.Y. (1902)
Pavesich v. New England Life Insurance Co., 122 Ga. 190 (1905)
Muller v. State of Oregon, 208 U.S. 412 (1908)
Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928)
Selected Documents
Commentary on Prince Albert v. Strange,The Jurist, Vol. XIII (London: S. Sweet, 1850), 14-15.
Robert De Valcourt, commentary on the right to privacy in An Illustrated Manners Book: A Manual of Good Behavior and Polite Accomplishment (New York: Leland Clay & Company, 1855), 85-87.
Henry Ward Beecher on prying, Life Thoughts from Pulpits and from Poets, edited by Henry I. Holmes (Brooklyn: Henry I. Holmes, 1872), 218.
Henry Hitchcock, "The Inviolability of Telegrams," Annual Report of the American Bar Association (Philadelphia: Jackson Brothers, 1878), 93-142.
Justice P.J. Lewis, dissent, Ex Parte Brown, St. Louis Court of Appeals (1879), reprinted as "The Inviolability of Telegrams," Central Law Journal, Vol. 11(1880), 115-117.
John Proffatt, "The Law of Newspaper Libel," The North American Review, Vol. 131 (1880), 109-127.
E.L. Godkin, "Libel and Its Legal Remedy," The Atlantic Monthly, Vol XLVI (December 1880), 729- 738.
Commentary on Invasion of Privacy of Political Leaders, "Editor's Easy Chair," Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol LXXII (December 1885-May, 1886), 474-475.
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