State v. Mancini’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
118 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably State v. Jalette (1978), State v. Bowden (1974)
118 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 Commonwealth v. Bonomi · State v. Colangelo · People v. Jelke · People v. Dioguardi · Commonwealth v. Snow
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'are totally extraneous to the issues in the case and tend to inflame and arouse the passions of the jury' against the defendant,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“although rooted in the reaction to the abuses of the secret proceedings of the English Star Chamber, [the right to a public trial] is not usually viewed as imposing “a rigid, inflexible straitjacket” upon a trial justice’s conduct of a trial. Rather has it generally been recognized as being subject to a court’s inherent power to regulate admission to the courtroom and to restrict ‘attendance at the trial as conditions and circumstances may reasonably demand in order to preserve order and decorum, or to protect the rights of the parties and the witnesses, or generally to further the administration of justice.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jordan
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.