State v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Drummond (2006), State v. Conway (2006)
97 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Washington v. Texas · Procunier v. Martinez · In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites · Pell v. Procunier
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a public trial assures testimonial trustworthiness by inducing fear of testimony falsely given * * *; * * * a public trial makes the proceedings known to a possible material witness who might otherwise be unknown to the parties * * *; and * * * public trial allows the public to learn about the functioning of their government.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'fairly dealt with and not unjustly condemned, and that the presence of the interested spectators may keep his triers keenly alive to a sense of their responsibility and to the importance of their functions.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Long · State v. Moton“shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.