Laxalt v. McClatchy’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 2022
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Hanna v. Plumer · Florida Department of State v. Treasure Salvors, Inc. · Kennecott Copper Corporation v. State Tax Commission Silver King Coalition Mines Co · Franklin v. Murphy
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a court of competent jurisdiction is authorized to order discovery of confidential records, the court must balance the public interest in avoiding harm from disclosure against the benefits of providing relevant evidence in civil litigation .... In a libel action, where the records may well go to the heart of material factual issues, the benefits usually outweigh the confidentiality interests.”
1 later decision 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.