In Re Sealed Documents’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Travelers Insurance v. Carpenter (2005), State v. Bauder (2007)
33 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 Franks v. Delaware · Nixon v. Warner Communications, Inc. · United States v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan · Press-Enterprise Company v. Superior Court of California for County of Riverside · United States Department of Justice v. Landano
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any evidence that it clearly placed the burden of demonstrating a compelling need for confidentiality upon the State; that it analyzed each document separately in light of the State’s arguments; that it considered alternatives short of a blanket order of nondisclosure; or that it made any fact-specific findings determining precisely what information contained in the disputed materials would result in the kinds of harm advanced by the State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[o]ur tradition of addressing issues of constitutional significance only when the matter is squarely and necessarily presented”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bauder
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.