Flynt v. Lombardi’s Empirical Analysis
885 F.3d 508 · 2018
Citation profile
Relationships
Relies on Nixon v. Warner Communications, Inc. · Press-Enterprise Company v. Superior Court of California for County of Riverside · California First Amendment Coalition v. Woodford · Zink v. Lombardi · Webster Groves School District v. Pulitzer Publishing 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to adjudicate the issue, [the Court] must first decide if the documents in question are 'judicial records,' and if so, must next consider whether the party seeking to prevent disclosure has overcome the common-law right of access that would otherwise apply to such records.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he personal and professional safety of one or more members of the execution team, as well as the interest of the State in carrying out its executions, were sufficiently in jeopardy to overcome the common-law right of public access to the records,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether the common-law presumption can be overcome is determined by balancing 'the interests served by the common-law right of access ... against the salutary interests served by maintaining confidentiality of the information sought to be sealed.'”
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.