Lecates v. Lecates’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2005
23 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 United States of America v. Solomon Louis Ginsberg · Bloomer v. Bloomer
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"At the same time it may be admitted, even where statutes exist requiring public trials, that in proper cases, as for example where secret processes of manufacture are involved, or where the evidence to be offered is so foul that witnesses will be disinclined to disclose the truth, or where, for decency's sake, it should not be publicly heard, the courts are not without power to order trials to be conducted in private."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. C. v. C.
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.