In re Breen’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 24 state decisions

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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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““To attempt to declare any fixed rule marking tile boundaries where free speech in reference to court proceedings shall.end would he as dangerous as it would be difficult. The right of free speech is one of the greatest guaranties to liberty in a free country like this, eren though that right ■ is frequently and in many instances outrageously abused. And scarcely less, if not of equal, importance, is the maintenance of respect for judicial tribunals, which are the arbiters of questions involving the lives, liberties, and property of the people. The duty and power is imposed upon the courts to protect their good name against ill-founded and unwarranted attack, the effect of which would be to bring the court unjustly into public contempt and ridicule, and thus impair the respect due to its authority. While it is the duty of all to protect the courts against unwarranted attack, that duty and obligation rests especially upon the members of the bar and other officers of the court. * * * It is the duty of all attorneys to be honest and honorable, to conduct themselves-as gentlemen, and to show due respect and courtesy. * * * When they fail -in any of these respects it is essential to the proper maintenance of the respect and dignity due to the court, and to the, proper administration of justice, that they be brought to a realization of their duties by reprimand, suspension, or disbarment, and sometimes by line and imprisonment.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Maury