In re The South Carolina Press Association’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2017
3 federal appellate · 6 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 · Press-Enterprise Company v. Superior Court of California Riverside County · Globe Newspaper Company v. Superior Court for County of Norfolk · Press-Enterprise Company v. Superior Court of California for County of Riverside · In Re the Knight Publishing Company D/B/A the Charlotte Observer
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the voir dire is to serve its function as the safeguard of the defendant’s sixth amendment rights, then clearly candor must be the hallmark of such a proceeding”). When a defendant’s right to a fair trial is the competing interest, the proceeding at issue”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[k]nowledge on the part of prospective jurors that their answers on voir dire will be reported in the press 'may so inhibit or chill truthful responses that [the] accused is denied the fair trial to which he is entitled.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there is a substantial probability that the defendant's right to a fair trial will be prejudiced by publicity that closure would prevent”
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.