People v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2017 · most notably Waller v. Georgia (1984), Gannett Co Inc v. A (1979)
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 54 state decisions — followed in 10 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
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · People v. Murray
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Sjince the concept of a secret trial is anathema to the social and political philosophy which motivates our society, the discretion to limit the public nature of judicial proceedings is to be sparingly exercised and, then, only when unusual circumstances necessitate it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bright v. State“The harmless error rule is no way to gauge the great, though intangible, societal loss that flows”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Waller v. Georgia
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.