591 So. 2d 901 - Davidson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2014
1 district · 5 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 MacArthur Co. v. Johns-Manville Corp. · Town of Mashpee v. Mashpee Tribe · Thompson v. Louisiana · 369 So. 2d 863 - Weatherford v. State · 369 So. 2d 873 - Leonard 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[t]he constitutional right to a public trial is not limitless. Weatherford v. State , 369 So.2d 863 (Ala.Crim.App.), cert. denied , 369 So.2d 873 (Ala.), cert. denied , 444 U.S. 867 , 100 S.Ct. 141 , 62 L.Ed.2d 91 (1979). `The requirement of a public trial "is not absolute in the sense that a defendant has the right to have any particular person present under all circumstances during the course of the trial."' Id. at 868 (quoting United States ex rel. Laws v. Yeager , 448 F.2d 74 , 80 (3d Cir. 1971)). `It is generally recognized that a judge has the inherent power to preserve order and decorum in the courtroom and that in the exercise of such power he may eject spectators without infringing an accused's right to a public trial.' Id. at 868. An order to lock the door for such an interval as to prevent disruption in the courtroom is properly a matter for the trial court's discretion and does not prevent a public trial in the sense of constitutional requirements. Renfroe v. State , 49 Ala.App. 713 , 275 So.2d 692 (1973); Bishop v. State , 19 Ala.App. 326 , 97 So. 169 (1923)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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