People v. Hinton’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably State v. Bayless (1976), Thomas Garcia v. Hazel Lewis Hale Creek Correctional Facility (1999)
42 federal appellate · 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 Duncan v. State of Louisiana · In re Oliver · Estes v. Texas · MATTER OF UNITED PRESS ASSNS. v. Valente · 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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The public trial concept has, however, never been viewed as imposing a rigid, inflexible straitjacket on the courts. It has uniformly been held to be subject to the inherent power of the court to preserve order and decorum in the courtroom, to protect the rights of parties and witnesses, and generally to further the administration of justice.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he right to a public trial is guaranteed by the U.S. Const., 6th Amdt., now applicable to the States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Okonkwo v. Lacy“a vital stake in the concept of a public trial.”
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.