Washington Post v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
935 F.2d 282 · 1991
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 28 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States of America, v. Microsoft Corporation, (2001), Center for National Security Studies v. U.S. Department of Justice (2003)
35 federal appellate · 28 district · 8 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 Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Weinstein v. Bradford · Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia · Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart · Press-Enterprise Company v. Superior Court of California Riverside 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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) closure serves a compelling interest; (2) there is a substantial probability that, in the absence of closure, this compelling interest would be harmed; and (3) there are no alternatives to closure that would adequately protect the compelling interest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(1) the challenged action is in its duration too short to be fully litigated prior to its cessation or expiration, and (2) there [is] a reasonable expectation that the same complaining party would be subjected to the same action again.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“court may take judicial notice of the existence of newspaper articles in the Washington, D.C., area that publicized”
2 later decisions 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.