State v. Unwin’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably State v. Roy (1989), State v. Pelican (1993)
63 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Barker v. Wingo · Brinegar v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We can do little more than identify some of the factors which courts should assess in determining whether a particular defendant has been deprived of his right [to a speedy trial]. Though some might express them in different ways, we identify four such factors: Length of delay, the reason for the delay, the defendant’s assertion of his right, and prejudice to the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Roy“it does not raise any presumption of guilt because there are many reasons for such conduct including fear, ignorance, confusion or the like, which are consistent with the claim of innocence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“court's instructions on flight were carefully limited, and they did not encourage the jury to give too much weight to the fact of the defendant's flight”
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.