United States v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis
622 F.2d 317 · 1980
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2013
7 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Chambers v. Mississippi · United States v. Nixon · Kerr v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal. · Sheppard v. Maxwell
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a substantial probability that closure will be effective in protecting against the perceived harm.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'establish that it is strictly and inescapably necessary in order to protect the fair trial guarantee' (Gannett, supra) 443 U.S. at 440, 99 S.Ct. at 2936 (Blackmun, J., dissenting) (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(t)he norm and presumption of the sixth amendment is that a trial should be a public proceeding. Gannett, 443 U.S. at 385, 99 S.Ct. at 2908.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.