United States v. Farmer’s Empirical Analysis
32 F.3d 369 · 1994
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Ernest Sutton Bell v. Mack Jarvis Robert Smith (2000), Ayala v. Speckard (1997)
27 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 18 U.S.C. § 113
Relies on Waller v. Georgia · Press-Enterprise Company v. Superior Court of California Riverside County · Nagac v. Derwinski · United States v. Lucas · Woods v. Kuhlmann
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.
“specific findings by the district court are not necessary if we can glean sufficient support for a partial temporary closure from the record”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`implicate the same secrecy and fairness concerns that a total closure does,'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he presumption of openness may be overcome only by an overriding interest based on findings that closure is essential to preserve higher values and is narrowly tailored to serve that interest. The interest is to be articulated along with findings specific enough that a reviewing court can determine whether the closure order was properly entered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.