In Re Scott J Rafferty’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2025
2 federal appellate · 2 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 Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · County of Los Angeles v. Davis · Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t would certainly be anomalous if a litigant in Mr. Rafferty's shoes who wished to distribute information to the government or to the media could not appeal an order forbidding him from doing so, while the newspaper to whom he wished to give his story were able to appeal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he party may disseminate the identical information covered by the protective order as long as the information is gained through means independent of the court's processes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We do not question the power of the district court to regulate discovery or the manner in which materials may be used in a litigation pending before it .”
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.