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← 2020 CO 45 - v. Jones

v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

2020

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
2
states following
June 2025
most recently cited

11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Taylor v. United States · Illinois v. Allen · Patterson v. McLean Credit Union · In re Oliver · Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[I]ntentional closures during more significant, and less fleeting, testimony are generally considered not trivial because of their potential to affect the fairness of the proceedings.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “of the many sources we may consult to discern legislative intent , reliance on legislative inaction is particularly risky”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “the party seeking to close the [proceeding] must advance an overriding interest that is likely to be prejudiced,”
    2 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.