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← 144 Neb. 463 - Maher v. State

Maher v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1944

Citation profile

91
cited by 91 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
January 2023
most recently cited

2 district · 87 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 91 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2023 · most notably Gallegos v. Nebraska (1951), Welch v. Welch (1994)

2 district · 87 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 State v. Keefe · 13 Cal. App. 2d 667 - People v. Romero · In Re Schechtel · Reed v. State of Florida · Morgan 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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “* * * But the Legislature has not undertaken to fix any minimum time in such matters. What is a fair and reasonable time in each particular case is always in the discretion of the court. No hard and fast rule can be applied in all cases.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Lee
  2. “There is room for the exercise of sound discretion on the part of the trial court, always bearing in mind that the right to a speedy trial is the constitutional right of any citizen who is accused of crime.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Lee
  3. “* * * no general principle fixes the exact time within which a trial must be had to satisfy the requirement of a speedy trial. The right to a speedy trial is necessarily relative; * * *.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Lee

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.