Sherrill v. Knight’s Empirical Analysis
569 F.2d 124 · 1977
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Huminski v. Corsones (2004), Phillips v. Bureau of Prisons (1979)
16 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Morrissey v. Brewer · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Paul v. Davis · Meachum v. Fano
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]ndividual news[people] [may] not be arbitrarily excluded from sources of information.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A related and perhaps equally compelling property interest may also be said to require the procedural protections of the fifth amendment. . . . While appellee’s entitlement is not created expressly by the Constitution or by positive federal law, it is created by the consistent, positive action of federal officials.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The first amendment’s protection of a citizen’s right to obtain information con cerning “the way the country is being run” does not extend to every conceivable avenue a citizen may wish to employ in pursuing this right, (at 129)”
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.