Ware v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Jones v. State (1959), Jones v. State (2002)
35 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 People v. Morino · Batesville v. Ball · State v. Kuhn · State Ex Rel. Stevens v. Wurdeman · Ware 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . .As we interpret that decision, the prisoner will be entitled to his discharge under the statute for want of prosecution — that is, by reason of a failure on the part of the State to demand trial and produce her evidence against the prisoner — unless the delay was for some other reason than simply a failure on the part of the State to demand a trial and bring forward its evidence. It is such want of prosecution on the part of those intrusted with the due administration of the law that this statute condemns by discharging the prisoner upon his application and a showing that the State had failed to prosecute as this statute required. Where he makes such showing, the court trying the issue is vested with no discretion in the matter. . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holland v. State“We cannot shut our eyes to the fact, known to all who are acquainted with the administration of justice, that, where the crime is of magnitude, delays diminish the chances of conviction and with that hope are usually sought or acquiesced in by the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holland v. State
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.