Wilk v. American Medical Ass'n’s Empirical Analysis
635 F.2d 1295 · 1980
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 17 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Public Citizen v. Liggett Group, Inc. (1988), Beckman Industries, Inc. v. International Insurance (1992)
36 federal appellate · 17 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia · Nixon v. Warner Communications, Inc. · Schlagenhauf v. Holder · La Buy v. Howes Leather Co.
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here an appropriate modification of a protective order can place private litigants in a position they would otherwise reach only after repetition of another's discovery, such modification can be denied only where it would tangibly prejudice substantial rights of the party opposing modification. Once such prejudice is demonstrated, however, the district court has broad discretion in judging whether that injury outweighs the benefits of any possible modification of the protective order.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in aid of collateral litigation on similar issues . . . materially eases the tasks of courts and litigants and speeds up what may otherwise be a lengthy process.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the purpose of the common law right of access is to check judicial abuses, then that right should only extend to materials upon which a judicial decision is based.”
4 later decisions 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.