Smith v. Hollins’s Empirical Analysis
448 F.3d 533 · 2006
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2023
7 federal appellate · 4 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 Williams v. Taylor · Waller v. Georgia · United States v. Jacobson · Francis S. v. Stone · Denbicare U.S.A., Inc. v. Toys "R" Us, 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A triviality standard, properly understood, does not dismiss a defendant's claim on the grounds that the defendant was guilty anyway or that he did not suffer "prejudice" or "specific injury." It is, in other words, very different from a harmless error inquiry. It looks, rather, to whether the actions of the court and the effect that they had on the conduct of the trial deprived the defendant whether otherwise innocent or guilty of the protections conferred by the Sixth Amendment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he denial of a public trial is a 'structural' error,” Smith v. Hollins, 448 F.3d 533 , 540 (2d Cir.2006),”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he party seeking to close the hearing must advance an overriding interest that is likely to be prejudiced, the closure must be no broader than necessary to protect that interest, the trial court must consider reasonable alternatives to closing the proceeding, and it must make findings adequate to support the closure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robinson v. State
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.