In Re Glenn’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““ ‘Important as it is that courts should perform their grave public duties unimpeded and unprejudiced by illegitimate influences, there are other rights guaranteed to all citizens by our Constitution and form of government, either expressly or impliedly, which are fully as important, and which must be guarded with an equally jealous care.’ “The general rule is that, to constitute any publication a contempt, it must have reference to a matter then pending in court, * * * tending to the injury of pending proceedings upon it, and of the subsequent proceeding (citing cases).” See also State ex rel. Kirven v. Scarborough, 70 S. C. 288, 49 S. E. 860 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Long v. McMILLAN