State v. Littlejohn’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably 6 Conn. App. 194 - In re Migdalia M. (1986), State v. Figueroa (1995)
96 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Boykin v. Alabama · Johnson v. Zerbst · Santobello v. New York · United States v. Marion · Pereira v. United States
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]rdinarily the statute of limitations is the only protection afforded a defendant against the institution of stale criminal charges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to treat the statute of limitations as jurisdictional and hence nonwaivable [or] as an affirmative defense and hence waivable”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Swebilius
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.