This particular case, due to its various aspects that are just off the rails, seems like a poor candidate to use as a representative example of anything in part

This particular case, due to its various aspects that are just off the rails, seems like a poor candidate to use as a representative example of anything in particular. For that reason I'd be very careful drawing any kind of big-picture conclusions without a) using a group of cases, ideally randomly chosen b) building a model for determining changes in precedent or case-influence c) separating media influence or isolating it in some meaningfully objective way. Otherwise it starts to look both hand-wavy and emotionally-invested which is a combination or at least a presentation style that I'd guess you'd want to avoid.