578 So. 2d 698 - CBS, INC. v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis

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8 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]here is no privilege, qualified, limited, or otherwise, which protects journalists from testifying as to their eyewitness observations of a relevant event in a subsequent court proceeding. The fact that the reporter in this case witnessed the event while on a newsgathering mission does not alter our decision.... Unlike the factual situations in Branzburg, Morgan, and Huffstetler , there is no confidential source involved in this case which may "dry up" if revealed. (emphasis added).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 669 So. 2d 316 - Gold Coast Publications, Inc. v. State · 692 So. 2d 924 - Davis v. State

2. “does not implicate any sources of information.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 692 So. 2d 924 - Davis v. State · 720 So. 2d 220 - State v. Davis

3. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 962 F. Supp. 1477 - Kidwell v. McCutcheon