State v. Couture’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2023 · most notably Klopfer v. State of North Carolina (1967), United States v. Liddy (1974)
3 federal appellate · 43 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 State v. Slorah · Smith v. State · State v. Wright · State v. Guthrie · State v. Kopelow
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““§ 1201. Right to speedy trial Any person in prison under indictment shall be tried or bailed at the next term after the finding thereof, if he demands it, unless the court is satisfied that some of the witnesses on the part of the State have been enticed away or detained from court by some cause beyond their control. All persons under indictment for felony, if they have been arrested thereon, shall be tried or bailed at the 2nd term after the finding thereof. Any person indicted, although he has not been arrested, is entitled to a speedy trial, if he demands it in person in open court.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. O'Clair““In view of the fact that the issue of the reasonableness of the detention is a matter of law for the court, this instruction was erroneous. As a result of the procedure adopted, authority was actually given to the jury to determine when the sentence ... to the Reformatory was to start. This is a prerogative not vested in a jury. We are of the opinion that the propounding of this question was prejudicial to the respondent.” (156 Me. p. 244, 163 A.2d p. 655)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brann““ 'While there is some authority to the contrary, the general rule is that a demand for trial, resistance to postponement, or some other effort to secure a speedy trial must be made by accused to entitle him to a discharge on the ground of delay.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Raburn v. Nash
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.