Morgan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 1998 · most notably Reporters Committee for Freedom of Press v. American Telephone & Telegraph Company (1978), 485 So. 2d 406 - Continental Assur. Co. v. Carroll (1986)
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 Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Branzburg v. Hayes · Pell v. Procunier · New York Times Company v. United States · Zemel v. Rusk
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The asserted claim to privilege should be judged on its facts by the striking of a proper balance between freedom of the press and the obligation of all citizens to give relevant testimony with respect to criminal conduct. The balance of these vital constitutional and societal interests on a case-by-case basis accords with the tried and traditional way of adjudicating such questions.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“privilege of confidential communication as between themselves and their informants”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he United States Supreme Court has now sanctioned the view that the First Amendment affords `some protection for seeking out the news.'”
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.