Barker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1991
6 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 Berney v. State
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Good reason to apprehend an attack does not give to the defendant the absolute and unqualified right to carry a weapon concealed about his person. The extent of the statute is that he may give this fact in evidence, which the jury are authorized to ‘consider in mitigation of the punishment, or justification of the offense.’ ””
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.