State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 state decisions

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If any person under indictment or information for any offense, and committed to prison, shall not be brought to trial before the end of the second term of the court having jurisdiction of the offense which shall be held after such indictment found or information filed, he shall be entitled to be discharged so far as relates to the offense for which he was committed, unless the delay shall happen on the application of the prisoner, or shall be occasioned by the want of time to try the cause at such second term.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Brooks · State v. Wilson

2. ““In the face of the foregoing facts, mindful of rules that the defendant need not take any affirmative action to bring this case to trial, that the whole responsibility of seeing to it that an accused is given a speedy trial rests upon the prosecution, not the accused, and that the right guaranteed by Section 10 of our Bill of Rights is not the grant of a mere privilege, but a right of which he cannot be deprived by the laches of public officers (In re Trull, supra, 165, 168, 169 ; State v. Hess, supra, 474, 478 ; State v. Coover, supra, 179, 182; State v. Goetz, supra, 119 ), we see no reason why the defendant in this case could not have been given a trial by jury, following the overruling of the foregoing motion to discharge, during the May, 1959, term of the district court of Johnson County. . . .” (p. 635.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Sanders

3. ““. . . What constitutes a speedy trial is said to be legislatively defined by G. S. 1949, 62-1431 and 62-1432. (See In re Trull, 133 Kan. 165, 167 , 298 Pac. 775 ; State v. Hess, 180 Kan. 472, 474, 475 , 304 P. 2d 474 ; State v. Goetz, 187 Kan. 117 , 353 P. 2d 816 .) In its decisions (See, e. g., State v. Stanley, 179 Kan. 613, 615 , 296 P. 2d 1088 , and State v. Hess, supra.) . . .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Brooks