Barker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
105 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Hester v. State (1974), Nelson v. State (1980)
105 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 Mack v. State · Shields v. State · Powers v. State · Henry v. State · Dukes 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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In charging the jury the court must state to them all matters of law which are necessary for their information in giving their verdict.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“"It thus appears by a long line of judicial precedent in this state that under a charge of murder a defendant may be found guilty of manslaughter although the statute defining the offense does not specifically fix manslaughter as a degree of any offense of murder. Regardless of the questioned soundness of the original reasoning of the above cases in view of the statutes since 1905, the law is now so well settled that we should not upset such well established precedent. The change, if desirable, must come from the legislature."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Mireles v. State · Mimms v. State““Under the offense charged in this case it was necessary to prove that the appellant killed ‘with premeditated’ malice. In other words, the proof must show the defendant had time to deliberate upon the intent and design to take life. We have said before: ‘Premeditation by its very nature is not instantaneous but requires some time interval.’ Heglin v. State (1957), 236 Ind. 350 , 140 N. E. 2d 98 .” 238 Ind. at 279, 280 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Maxwell 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.