Jones v. Peyton’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 1995
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
Relies on Washington v. Texas · In re Oliver · 52 Cal. 2d 841 - People v. Cash · Lewis v. Peyton · 231 Cal. App. 2d 52 - Cembrook v. Sterling Drug Inc.
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.
““Holding a trial in the office of the jailer, as was done in the instant case, does not, in out opinion, afford an opportunity for a public trial in the ordinary common-sense acceptation of the term, public trial. * **The judgment rendered pursuant to such proceeding is therefore void and unenforceable.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not limited or restricted to any particular class of the community, but is open to the free observation of all.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether an accused has been deprived of his constitutional right to a public trial by holding it * * * other than in an “open courtroom” depends upon whether the public had freedom of access. * * * It has been held that a trial in the judge’s chambers did not constitute a denial of a public trial where there was no exclusion of the public or where there was no affirmative proof in the record that the public had been excluded.”
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.