State v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably State v. Campbell (1983), State v. Lankford (1989)
30 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 Barker v. Wingo · Hankerson v. North Carolina · State v. Tucker · State v. Owens · State v. Horn
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court, unless good cause to the contrary is shown, must order the prosecution or indictment to be dismissed, in the following cases: 2. If a defendant, whose trial has not been postponed upon his application, is not brought to trial within six (6) months from the date that the indictment or information is filed with the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lund“The court, unless good cause to the contrary is shown, must order the prosecution or indictment to be dismissed ... [i]f a defendant, whose trial has not been postponed upon his application, is not brought to trial at the next term of the court in which the indictment is triable, after it is found. 1”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Campbell“[p]hotographs showing the ... appearance of a person are generally admissible in the discretion of the trial court, unless the photograph is so inflammatory that its probative value is outweighed by the prejudice which might result from its inflammatory nature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Alwin
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.