92 Md. App. 227 - Baltimore Sun v. Thanos’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2015
12 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 12 U.S.C. § 3401 (Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978) · 18 U.S.C. § 2510 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 44 U.S.C. § 2107 (Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act of 2018)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Williams v. People of State of New York · Branzburg v. Hayes · Bibby v. United States · Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia
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.
“In engaging in this difficult balancing process, the trial court will obviously find some interests of more importance in some cases than others, depending on the nature of the crime, defendant, victim, and report itself. If, upon completion of this process, the court concludes that one or more compelling interests served by maintaining the confidentiality of all or part of the report outweigh the First Amendment right of access to it, then the court may seal all or part of the report. Finally, in making its determination, “[t]he court should consider alternatives to a broad seal, including the option of redacting portions of pleadings or transcripts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.