Commonwealth v. Hayes’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2015 · most notably Press-Enterprise Company v. Superior Court of California for County of Riverside (1986), John M. v. Paula T. (1990)
64 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 Barker v. Wingo · Mapp v. Ohio · Simmons v. United States · Jackson v. Denno · Witherspoon v. Illinois
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All courts shall be open; and every man for an injury done him in his lands, goods, person or reputation shall have remedy by due course of law, and right and justice administered without sale, denial or delay. Suits may be brought against the Commonwealth in such manner, in such courts and in such cases as the Legislature may by law direct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Our strong constitutional requirement of public access to judicial proceedings emphasizes that publicity is `of critical importance to our type of government in which the citizenry is the final judge of the proper conduct of public business.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“that there is a substantial probability that irreparable damage to his fair trial right will result from conducting the proceeding in public.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.