Vidal v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
31 F.3d 67 · 1994
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably State v. Drummond (2006), State v. Ndina (2009)
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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 In re Oliver · Waller v. Georgia · Nagac v. Derwinski · United States v. Lucas
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Supreme Court has specifically noted a special concern for assuring the attendance [at trial] of family members of the accused.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ndina · State v. LORMOR“[1] the party seeking to close the hearing must advance an overriding interest that is likely to be prejudiced, [2] the closure must be no broader than necessary to protect that interest, [3] the trial court must consider reasonable alternatives to closing the proceeding, and [4] it must make findings adequate to support the closure.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may give way in certain cases to other rights or interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Hollins
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.