United States v. Geise’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1983
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft & Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Anderson · United States v. Kobli · Tanksley v. United States · United States ex rel. Carmelo v. Burke
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The requirement of a public trial is for the benefit of the accused; that the public may see he is fairly dealt with and not unjustly condemned, and that the presence of interested spectators may keep his triers keenly alive to a sense of their responsibility and to the importance of their functions.” (1 Cooley, Constitutional Limitations, 8th ed., 1927, p. 647.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Stafford“Ordinarily the Sixth Amendment precludes the general exclusion of the public from the trial of a case over the objection of the defendant ... [h]owever, ... although the Constitutional right of public trial is a substantial one, the term 'public' is a relative one, and its construction depends upon various conditions and circumstances....”
1 later decision 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.