State v. Aaron’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably State v. Pennington (1993), State v. Peters (1997)
26 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 United States v. Mauro · United States v. Ford · State v. Herrera · Brown v. Wolff · State v. Sheets
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In construing the Act's "good cause provision," courts have insisted that any continuance be granted "in open court" in the presence of either the defendant or his counsel as required by the Act. * * * Certain courts have also interpreted the Act's language as contemplating that the granting of continuances for "good cause" only be made upon an express prosecutorial or defense motion for such a continuance, and may not be initiated by the trial judge. * * * Accordingly, we take this opportunity to advise that while a crowded trial court calendar may in some circumstances constitute good cause for granting reasonable and necessary continuances under the IAD, it does not amount to per se good cause. Otherwise, in these times of chronic court congestion, the "good cause" exception could eviscerate the Act's speedy trial provisions. We recognize that because of serious scheduling conflicts it may not always be possible to accommodate the time limits imposed by the Act. Nevertheless, efforts must be made to adjust the court's calendar so as to commence trial proceedings in a timely fashion before continuances are granted due to court congestion. Similarly, because of the nature of the time limits imposed by the Act, and the severe consequences when those time constraints are not met, it is advisable in cases where the IAD speedy trial provisions are in effect for the trial court not to schedule a trial for the very last date available.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State“good cause was shown when the trial judge became ill”
1 later decision 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.