Barker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““This court has heretofore held that in order to sustain a motion for a belated appeal, the following essential elements must be made to appear: One. There must be cause shown to excuse the delay in perfecting a timely appeal and, two, that he has a prima facie meritorious cause for appeal. State ex rel. Casey v. Murray (1952), 231 Ind. 74, 77 , 106 N. E. 2d 911 .” Barker v. State (1961), 242 Ind. 5, 6 , 175 N. E. 2d 353 . See also Deckard v. State (1961), 241 Ind. 338 , 170 N. E. 2d 424 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johnson v. State