Barton v. Shupe’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably State ex rel. National Broadcasting Co. v. City of Cleveland (1988), State ex rel. Bush v. Spurlock (1989)
3 federal appellate · 43 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 Dayton Newspapers, Inc. v. City of Dayton · State ex rel. Celebrezze v. Ohio Fifth District Court of Appeals
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While any prudent public officer would be aware that this investigation might lead to litigation — administrative, civil, or criminal — the record resulting from the investigation was not ‘specifically compiled in reasonable anticipation of, or in defense of, a civil or criminal action or proceeding.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any record that contains information that is specifically compiled in reasonable anticipation of, or in defense of a civil or criminal action or proceeding, including the independent thought processes and personal trial preparation of an attorney.”
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.