State v. Keeler’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2018 · most notably In re Oliver (1948), Gannett Co Inc v. A (1979)
2 federal appellate · 54 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Dutton v. State · In re Shortridge · State v. Brooks · People v. Hartman · Myers v. State
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . But it likewise involves questions of public interest and concern. The people are interested in lmowing, and have the right to know, how their servants—the judge, county attorney, sheriff, and clerk—conduct the public’s business. . . . “But the public is interested in every criminal trial that court officers and jurors are kept keenly alive to a sense of their responsibility and the importance of their functions, and interested spectators by their presence are the most potent influence to accomplish this desired end.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Just how a defendant could show that he was prejudiced by an order excluding the public or that the presence of a particular person or of the public could have been of advantage to him is not disclosed, and such reasoning has been condemned by the courts everywhere. With equal propriety the court might deny a defendant charged with a felony the right to a trial by a jury, and then insist that the defendant, found guilty by the court, must show prejudice by demonstrating that a jury would have reached a different result.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Micalizzi““To the credit of our courts it may be said that the question before us has seldom arisen, but, when it has, the authorities with singular unanimity have upheld the right guaranteed by the Constitution, and have given such construction to the guaranty as vitalizes it and' makes it of practical, not merely theoretical, value.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Micalizzi
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.