Foley v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Press-Enterprise Company v. Superior Court of California Riverside County · Globe Newspaper Company v. Superior Court for County of Norfolk · Press-Enterprise Company v. Superior Court of California for County of Riverside · Frank v. Mangum · Isaksen v. Vermont Castings, 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The physical layout of the place in which the [proceedings] are held and its accessibility to the public are important considerations in deciding whether the proceedings conducted there are properly public.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re M.C.“Openness ... enhances both the basic fairness of the [proceeding] and the appearance of fairness so essential to public confidence in the system.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re M.C.“to adjourn the court, whenever the public convenience makes it expedient, to the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Bridgewater,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re M.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.