Ex parte Drawbaugh’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any attempt to maintain secrecy, as to the records of this court, would seem to be inconsistent with the common understanding of what belongs to a public court of record, to which all persons have the right of access . . . " Id. at 407. Indeed, the importance of "public exposure to trial court proceedings,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“upon filing the transcript of the papers pertaining to the appeal with the clerk of this court, ... moved the court ... 'that the files relating to the above appeal be preserved in secrecy, and that the clerk of this court be directed not to permit said files, nor any part thereof, to be inspected, nor any copy to be taken from said files, except upon request of the appellant or his attorneys, or upon special order of this court first obtained, after due notice to appellant's attorneys.'”
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.