Lentz v. Estelle

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “. . . this court is very reluctant to second-guess the trial court’s discretion on a cold record four years hence”.
• closure during testimony of prosecution witness to avoid intimidation
• closure during testimony of rape victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

23 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Knight
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-10-20· cited 61×
• State v. Loyden
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 2005-04-06· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Contakos
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-01· cited 36×
• State v. Baumberger
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 2016-06-01· cited 36×
• United States v. Mark Richard Powers
  Eighth Circuit· 1980-04-30· cited 28×
• State v. Raymond
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1984-02-28· cited 24×
• State v. Blake
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1981-09-08· cited 19×
• State v. Pohle
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1979-03-19· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Berrigan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-06-27· cited 15×
• Lister v. Hoover
  Seventh Circuit· 1981-07-31· cited 13×
• Thomas E. Lister v. Thomas H. Hoover
  Seventh Circuit· 1983-05-16· cited 11×
• Pechter v. Lyons
  S.D. New York· 1977-11-08· cited 9×
• Eastman v. University of Michigan
  Sixth Circuit· 1994-07-25· cited 8×
• Butler v. Smith
  S.D. New York· 1976-07-26· cited 6×
• Spielberg v. Board of Regents, Univ. of Mich.
  E.D. Michigan· 1985-02-05· cited 6×
• Lister v. Hoover
  Seventh Circuit· 1981-08-20· cited 3×
• Allen v. Electric Power Board of the Metropolitan Government
  M.D. Tennessee· 1976-08-13· cited 3×
• State v. Canales
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 2016-12-07· cited 3×
• Howe v. Cronin
  D. Colorado· 1978-10-11· cited 2×
• Edmondson v. Hess
  E.D. Oklahoma· 1978-12-22· cited 1×