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← 248 Mont. 67 - State v. Heffernan

State v. Heffernan’s Empirical Analysis

1991

Citation profile

22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
states following
January 2001
most recently cited

22 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Barker v. Wingo · United States v. Marion · Smith v. United States · State v. Harvey · State v. Waters

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

  1. “1) length of delay; 2) reason for delay; 3) assertion of the right by the defendant; and 4) prejudice to the defendant.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.