Johnson v. Sherry’s Empirical Analysis

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11 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions

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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[ (1) ] the party seeking to close a public hearing must advance an overriding interest that is likely to be prejudiced, [ (2) ] the closure must be no broader than necessary to protect that interest, [ (3) ] the trial court must consider reasonable alternatives to closing the proceeding, and [ (4) ] it must make findings adequate to support the closure.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Simmons · Anthony Wayne Crutcher Jr v. Commonwealth of Kentucky

2. “fairly dealt with and not unjustly condemned, and that the presence of interested spectators may keep his triers keenly alive to a sense of their responsibility and to the importance of their functions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Anthony Wayne Crutcher Jr v. Commonwealth of Kentucky

3. “Because of the great, though intangible, societal loss that flows from closing courthouse doors, the denial of a right to a public trial is considered a structural error for which prejudice is presumed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Moton