Gordon v. Boyles’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2025
1 federal appellate · 19 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Upjohn Company v. United States · Branzburg v. Hayes · St. Amant v. Thompson
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(privilege applies only to statements made in cireumstances giving rise to a reasonable expectation that the statements will be treated as confidential”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“by or to the client in the course of gaining counsel, advice, or direction with respect to the client's rights or obligations”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“In sum, the General Assembly adopted section 13-90-119 in order to protect the First Amendment interests of newsper-sons who rely on confidential sources of information to gather and report news about public affairs. However, the privilege is qualified, not absolute. A court must carefully weigh each of the three factors listed in section 13 — 90—119(3)(al-ie) before compelling disclosure. As part of the balancing test required under section 13-90-119(3)(c) to weigh the First Amendment interests of a news-person defendant in resisting compelled disclosure of confidential sources and the plaintiffs interest in the information, the trial court must make a preliminary determination about the probable falsity of the defendant’s statements. While in some instances disclosure may be the best option, we emphasize that when deciding whether to compel a newsper-son to disclose confidential information, a trial court should compel disclosure only as a last resort when necessary to promote the effective administration of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.