Nowack v. Auditor General’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2004 · most notably Nixon v. Warner Communications, Inc. (1978), Bruce v. Gregory (1967)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Matter of Steinway · Clement v. Graham · State ex rel. Colscott v. King · Stone v. Kellogg · 40 N.J. Eq. 392 - Huylar v. Cragin Cattle Co.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"This rule adopted by the English courts has no basis in reason or justice. It is absurd to hold that a man could inspect the public records, providing his purpose was to use the information in some litigation, and to deny him the right to inspect for some other purpose that might be equally beneficial to him. It does not protect all of his substantial rights and has not been received with general favor in this country."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * question as to the common law right of the people at large to inspect public documents and records.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“repugnant to the spirit of our democratic institutions,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.