Aaron v. Capps’s Empirical Analysis
507 F.2d 685 · 1975
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably United States v. Sherlock (1989), Thomas v. Zant (1983)
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Fay v. Noia · Furman v. Georgia · In re Oliver · Henry v. State of Mississippi
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`The constitutional right to a public trial is not a limitless imperative.' Lacaze v. United States , 5 Cir., 1968, 391 F.2d 516 , 521 . The fact that some members of the public were barred from the courtroom does not necessarily mean that a denial of a public trial has occurred; the `decision must turn on the particular circumstances of the case, and not upon a question-begging because abstract and absolute right to a "public trial".' Levine v. United States , 362 U.S. 610 , 616-617 , 80 S.Ct. 1038 , 1043 , 4 L.Ed.2d 989 (1960). See also 6 Wigmore on Evidence § 1835 at 338." Aaron v. Capps , 507 F.2d 685 , 687 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 423 U.S. 878 , 96 S.Ct. 153 , 46 L.Ed.2d 112 (1975).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Certainly under modern conditions, when friends of the accused, the representatives of the press, and those necessary to the proper conduct of the trial are present, the defendant receives every safeguard insured by a trial open to the general public.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In all prosecutions for rape and assault with intent to ravish, the court may, in its discretion, exclude from the courtroom all persons, except such as may be necessary to the conduct of the trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.