42 Cal. 3d 646 - CBS, INC. v. Block’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
152 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 5 Cal. 4th 363 - Roberts v. City of Palmdale (1993), 32 Cal. 4th 1029 - State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Garamendi (2004)
152 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 National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · Bates v. City of Little Rock · 17 Cal. 3d 107 - Shepherd v. Superior Court · 32 Cal. 3d 440 - American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California, Inc. v. Deukmejian · Black Panther Party v. Kehoe
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 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(b)(1) The people have the right of access to information concerning the conduct of the people’s business, and, therefore, the meetings of public bodies and the writings of public officials and agencies shall be open to public scrutiny. “(2) A statute, court rule, or other authority, including those in effect on the effective date of this subdivision, shall be broadly construed if it furthers the people’s right of access, and narrowly construed if it limits the right of access. A statute, court rule, or other authority adopted after the effective date of this subdivision that limits the right of access shall be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. “(3) Nothing in this subdivision supersedes or modifies the right of privacy guaranteed by Section 1 or affects the construction of any statute, court rule, or other authority to the extent that it protects that right to privacy, including any statutory procedures governing discovery or disclosure of information concerning the official performance or professional qualifications of a peace officer. “(4) Nothing in this subdivision supersedes or modifies any provision of this Constitution, including the guarantees that a person may not be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or denied equal protection of the laws, as provided in Section 7. “(5) This subdivision does not repeal or nullify, expressly or by implication, any c”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“clearly outweighs the public interest served by disclosure of”
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.