Werfel v. Fitzgerald’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2012
6 federal appellate · 6 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 Stevenson v. News Syndicate Co. · Egan v. Board of Water Supply of New York · Daly v. Dimock · Jackson v. Mobley · Ex Parte Jesse W Uppercu
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Although some courts have provided for pre-trial access,] [o]n the other hand, other American courts held that records prior to trial were not available to public inspection until there were proceedings in open court, following which the records were accessible to all persons, whether they had a special interest or not[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“). A New York court described a similar usage. See Werfel v. Fitzgerald, 23 A.D.2d 306, 307, 260 N.Y.S.2d 791, 791-93 (1965) (per curiam) ("As used by the parties, the term `docket book' evidently refers to the record kept by the Clerk containing the entries of the proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that files in the possession of the clerk of the Criminal Court of the City of New York are public records which may be fully examined by any person, unless the papers have been sealed from public scrutiny by the court or by the terms of a statute”
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.