Globe Newspaper Co.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 state decisions

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

1. “includes the name of the deceased (if known), 'when, where, and by what means the person met his [or her] death, ... all material circumstances attending the death, and the name, if known, of any person whose unlawful act or negligence appears to have contributed' to the death.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bos. Globe Media Partners, LLC v. Chief Justice of the Trial Court

2. “a person has been killed in circumstances sufficiently suspicious as to warrant the Attorney General or a district attorney to require the death be investigated by a judge in an evidentiary hearing.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bos. Globe Media Partners, LLC v. Chief Justice of the Trial Court

3. “we do not interpret a statute to modify or abrogate an area traditionally guided by the common law, such as public access to judicial records, unless the intent to do so is clear”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bos. Globe Media Partners, LLC v. Chief Justice of the Trial Court