State v. McGowan’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 1984
20 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 People v. Dawson · Hale v. County Treasurer of Mineral Co. · State v. Le Flohic
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 20 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 be dismissed if a defendant whose trial has not been postponed upon his application is not brought to trial within 6 months after entry of plea upon a complaint, information or indictment charging a misdemeanor.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““An order for the dismissal of an action, as provided in this chapter, is a bar to any other prosecution for the same offense if it is a misdemeanor, but it is not a bar if the offense is a felony. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘Whether a trial is a speedy trial within the Constitution is a judicial question.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Sanders
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.