141 Md. App. 354 - Ratchford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2020
21 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 · Colorado v. Spring · 87 Md. App. 57 - Howell v. State · 89 Md. App. 178 - Alston 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As one of the four factors on the ultimate merits, it is heavily influenced by the other three factors, particularly that of “reasons for the delay.” It may gain weight or it may lose weight because of circumstances that have nothing to do with the mere ticking of the clock.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Length of delay" in one of its manifestations , moreover, is by no means the equivalent of "length of delay" in its other manifestation. For its procedural function, "length of delay" is the gross period of time between the arrest and the trial or the hearing on the motion. For its function as a factor on the merits , by contrast, the "length of delay" is the net period of time that may be chargeable to the State or to the court system as true "delay," some of which, depending on other circumstances, may be given great weight and some of which may be given only slight weight.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“between arrest and trial is a term of art that serves two separate and distinct functions in a speedy trial analysis. In its first function, it identifies the threshold that must be crossed before any further analysis is called for. Along the delay continuum, the trigger of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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