I could be wrong, but I don't remember a lot of polling in the past on whether the public agrees with a potential Supreme Court nominee's judicial opinions. But here we have it.

Poll: Public would reverse Sotomayor ruling

As President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, continues meeting senators who will be voting on her confirmation, a new Quinnipiac Poll shows a wide majority of Americans dissenting from one of her most talked-about decisions by a 3-1 margin.

I have seen polling on the popularity of Supreme Court justices and it regularly shows that Americans hold members of the high court in very high regard.  Stories like this might help that.  In depth polling on the ins and outs of what issues the Court is actually deciding, however, might actually hurt that popularity.