Petroleum Products Antitrust Litigation McGraw-Hill Inc v. States of Arizona California Florida Oregon and Washington’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 7 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Bulow Auersperg v. Bulow, Shoen v. Shoen (1993)
5 federal appellate · 7 district · 8 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 · Lubin v. Allison · Baker v. F & F Investment · Zerilli v. Smith · Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee Corp.
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... disclosure may be ordered only upon a clear and specific showing that the information is: highly material and relevant, necessary or critical to the maintenance of the claim, and not obtainable from other available sources.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Justice Brennan has suggested that the harm caused by requiring the taking of 65 depositions did not “outweigh the unpalatable choice that civil contempt would impose upon the” reporter ordered to disclose the names of his confidential source. In re Roche, [ 448 U.S. 1312, 1316 , 101 S.Ct. 4 , 65 L.Ed.2d 1103 ] (1980) (Brennan, J. in chambers). Likewise, the District of Columbia Circuit recently recognized that “an alternative requiring the taking of as many as 60 depositions might be a reasonable prerequisite to compelled disclosure.” Zerilli v. Smith, 656 F.2d 705, 714 (D.C.Cir.1981).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“all reasonable attempts ... be made to obtain information from non-press sources before there is any consideration of subpoenaing the press”
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.