Simmons v. Conger’s Empirical Analysis
86 F.3d 1080 · 1996
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Doe v. Dekalb County School District (1998), Jennifer Johnson Aimee Bogrow v. Board of Regents of the University of Georgia Antoine Hester (2001)
30 federal appellate · 3 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 Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · O'Shea v. Littleton · Stump v. Sparkman · Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We review the district court's conclusions of law de novo.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“of summarily closing his courtroom as an unconstitutional exercise of his authority. 2 39 In order to ascertain the nature of the plaintiffs' claim, one must understand the nature of the underlying right supporting such claim. The plaintiffs are seeking the type of procedural protections surrounding the qualified right of access to judicial proceedings guaranteed by the First Amendment, and first articulated by the Supreme Court in Richmond Newspapers. 3 The plaintiffs in both Richmond Newspapers and this case challenged not the trial court's ultimate”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Simmons v. Conger“but merely the manner in which the judge exercised such authority. In their complaint, Simmons and CCCFC specifically contend that 40 Judge Conger did not make any order or finding balancing the interest of the public to attend and the interest of the husband to have a closed hearing. Judge Conger made no finding that the denial of public access served an important governmental interest and that there was no less restrictive way to serve that governmental interest. 41 In fact, the relief sought by Simmons and CCCFC was to enjoin Judge Conger”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Simmons v. Conger
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.