Castle v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably State v. Frazier (1984), O'Coin's, Inc. v. Treasurer of the County of Worcester (1972)
28 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 Woods v. State · Zehrlaut v. State · Board of Commissioners v. Stout · Colglazier v. State · Shewmaker 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fundamental principle of constitutional law”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. State · Cole v. State““No person shall be held by recognizance to answer an indictment or affidavit, without trial, for a period embracing more than three [3] terms of court, not including the term at which a recognizance was first taken thereon, if taken in term time; but he shall be discharged unless a continuance be had upon his motion, or the delay be caused by his act, or there be not sufficient time to try him at such third term; and, in the latter case, if he be not brought to trial at such third term he shall be discharged, except as provided in the next section.” Acts 1905, ch. 169, §220, p. 584 [§9-1403, Burns’ 1956 Repl.].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin 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.