State v. Knutson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 2012
5 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 Branzburg v. Hayes · Hibbing Education Ass'n v. Public Employment Relations Board · Schweich v. Ziegler, Inc. · Heaslip v. Freeman · 602 F. Supp. 675 - Miller v. Mecklenburg County
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Reporters Shield Law does not apply where, as here, no source is at risk and the reporter would testify regarding events personally witnessed. * * * Rosen has no constitutional privilege not to testify regarding his personal observation of an assault. * * * Neither the Minnesota Reporters Shield Law nor the Constitution provide Rosen a privilege not to testify regarding events he personally witnessed while covering a story.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Knutson“Section 595.023 only prohibits compelled direct or indirect disclosure of sources” and that "the statute does not apply where, as here, the unpublished information would not identify a source.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Knutson“Section 595.023 only prohibits compelled direct or indirect disclosure of sources” and that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Knutson
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.