No. 77-1704’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2005
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Branzburg v. Hayes · Lathall D. Langston v. Donald E. Johnson, Administrator of Veterans Affairs · United States v. Liddy · United States v. Liddy
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] newsman can claim no general immunity, qualified or otherwise,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Branzburg majority ... rejected that formulation [requiring the government to make a preliminary showing] in clear and unmistakable terms. In their view, its adoption would frustrate the historic role of the grand jury in determining probable violations of the law. Further, its recognition would needlessly “embroil[ ] [courts] in preliminary factual and legal determinations with respect to whether the proper predicate had been laid for the reporter’s appearance .... ””
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.