In re Charlotte Observer’s Empirical Analysis
921 F.2d 47 · 1990
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2019
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Sheppard v. Maxwell · Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart · Douglas Oil Company of California v. Petrol Stops Northwest · Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn · Oklahoma Publishing Company v. District Court in and for Oklahoma County
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.
“[o]nce announced to the world, the information lost its secret characteristic.”
3 later decisions 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.