Columbia Broadcasting Systems, Inc. v. United States District Court’s Empirical Analysis
729 F.2d 1174 · 1984
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably United States v. Rewald (1989), Levine v. United States District Court (1985)
32 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1651
Relies on Elrod v. Burns · Irvin v. Dowd · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart · Estes v. Texas
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he courts have long held that in a large metropolitan area, prejudicial publicity is less likely to endanger the defendant’s right to a fair trial. The size and heterogeneity of such communities make it unlikely that even the most sensational cases will become “a cause cele-bre” where “the whole community ... becomes interested in all the morbid details.” Moreover, in a populous metropolitan area, the pool of potential jurors is so large that even in cases attracting extensive and inflammatory publicity, it is usually possible to find an adequate number of untainted jurors. Almost all the cases in which the Supreme Court has found that press coverage deprived the defendant of a fair trial have been tried in small rural communities.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“must look not simply to [publicity's] effect on individual viewers but to its capacity to inflame and prejudice the entire community.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“clear ... that further publicity, unchecked, would so distort the views of potential jurors that 12 c[an] not be found who would, under proper instructions, fulfill their sworn duty to render a just verdict exclusively on the evidence presented in open court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.