153 W. Va. 159 - State Ex Rel. Farley v. Kramer’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably 170 W. Va. 249 - State Ex Rel. Shorter v. Hey (1982), 161 W. Va. 776 - State v. Alexander (1978)
38 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 Simmons v. United States · Garrity v. State of New Jersey · United States v. Jackson · Spevack v. Klein · 129 W. Va. 54 - Harbert v. County Court of Harrison County
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nless the failure to try him was caused by his insanity; or by the witnesses for the State being enticed or kept away, or prevented from attending by sickness or inevitable accident; or by a continuance granted on the motion of the accused; or by reason of his escaping from jail, or failing to appear according to his recognizance, or of the inability of the jury to agree in their verdict[.]”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“The statute involved in this case applies to a person charged by presentment or indictment with a felony or misdemeanor, "and remanded to a court of competent jurisdiction for trial * * *." The word "remanded" means "held" to a court of competent jurisdiction "for trial." If there is no pending presentment or indictment for a felony, obviously the accused is not held for trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The right to a speedy trial is intended to avoid oppression and prevent delay by imposing on the courts and on the prosecution an obligation to proceed with reasonable dispatch. It has been said that the basic policy underlying the constitutional guaranty and the statutes enacted to implement it is to protect the accused from having criminal charges pending against him an undue length of time.” State ex rel. Farley v. Kramer, 153 W.Va. 159, 170-171 , 169 S.E.2d 106, 113-114 (1969), quoting from 21 Am. Jur. 2d Criminal Law § 242 (1965).”
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.