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Sample v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1902

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
4
states following
June 1979
most recently cited

15 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1979

15 state decisions

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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 Ex parte State, in re Tate

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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““ . . . The accused is not entitled to a discharge by reason of any delay made necessary by the law itself. . . . The right of a speedy trial does not operate to deprive the state of a reasonable opportunity of prosecuting criminals.”
    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.