State v. Laney’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably State v. Montoya (2011), State v. Maddox (2008)
80 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 · State v. Cunningham · State v. Woodward · State v. Varela · State v. Salazar
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the length of delay, (2) the reason for delay, (3) the defendant's assertion of the right, and (4) prejudice to the defendant.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stock · State v. Downey“Intermediate categories of delay, such as bureaucratic indifference or failure to take reasonable means to bring a case to trial, are considered more culpable and weigh more heavily against the State, especially if the defendant has sought to safeguard his rights.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gallegos · State v. Stock“involve numerous or relatively difficult criminal charges and evidentiary issues, numerous witnesses, expert testimony, and scientific evidence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Deans · State v. Downey
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.