State v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2012
13 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. § 2111 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · In re Oliver · Rodriguez v. New York · United States v. Kobli
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the court instructed the jury before the argument of counsel and that the doors of the courtroom were opened during the argument. " ( Ibid., italics added.) The court explained that "The term `public trial' is used in a relative sense and its meaning depends largely upon the circumstances of each particular case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.