Ayala v. Speckard’s Empirical Analysis
131 F.3d 62 · 1997
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Presley v. Georgia (2010), Ernest Sutton Bell v. Mack Jarvis Robert Smith (2000)
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Batson v. Kentucky · Teague v. Lane · Lockett v. Ohio · Griffith v. Kentucky · Eddings v. Oklahoma
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the more extensive the closure requested, the greater must be the gravity of the required interest and the likelihood of risk to that interest.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the closure must be no broader than necessary to protect that interest”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“nothing in the First Amendment cases or in Waller to indicate that once a trial judge has determined that limited closure [to protect a single witness during his testimony] is warranted as an alternative to complete closure, the judge must sua sponte consider further alternatives to the alternative deemed appropriate”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.