Suggs v. Hopper’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2003 · most notably Carchman v. Nash New Jersey Department of Corrections (1985), Clipper v. State (1983)
2 district · 21 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 Gilstrap v. Wilder
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The purpose of the statute is to insure speedy trial on pending charges before staleness and difficulty of proof set in. These are pre-trial, and not sentencing, considerations. Suggs’ petition is without merit because the statute by its terms relates only to an 'untried indictment, information or complaint,’ and does not apply to warrants for arrest for probation violation.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“untried ... complaint on the basis of which a detainer has been lodged against the prisoner”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“has entered upon a term of imprisonment ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nash v. Jeffes
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.