Titan Sports, Inc. v. Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
151 F.3d 125 · 1998
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Cusumano v. Microsoft Corp. (1998), Joanna Pacitti Joseph Pacitti Stella Pacitti v. Macy's (1999)
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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 Hickman v. Taylor · United States v. Nixon · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Branzburg v. Hayes · Lovell v. City of Griffin
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his test does not grant status to any person with a manuscript, a web page or a film, but requires an intent at the inception of the newsgathering process to disseminate investigative news to the public. As we see it, the privilege is only available to persons whose purposes are those traditionally inherent to the press; persons gathering news for publication. It is the burden of the party claiming the privilege to establish their right to its protection. [ Id. at 129-30 (internal citations omitted).]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“whether a person is a journalist, and thus protected by the privilege, must be determined by the person’s intent at the inception of the information-gathering process ... the individual claiming the privilege must demonstrate, through competent evidence, the intent to use material — sought, gathered, or received — to disseminate information to the public and that such intent existed at the inception of the newsgathering process. This requires an intent-based factual inquiry to be made by the district court ... prior experience as a professional journalist may be persuasive evidence of present intent to gather for the purpose of dissemination ... the primary relationship between the one seeking to invoke the privilege and his sources must have as its basis the intent to disseminate the information to the public garnered from that relationship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“as well as any press association, radio or television station. The witness was an employee of a professional wrestling promoter, whose job was to record prepared commentaries which would be played to callers of an 900-number hotline to promote upcoming wrestling events and pay-per-view television programs, announce results of wrestling matches and discuss wrestlers' personal lives and careers. Id. at 126. The court held the witness was not a journalist because all of his information was given to him by his employers, and”
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.