State v. Harriman’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2023
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 Kring v. State of Missouri · Davis v. United States · United States v. Acme Process Equipment Co. · State v. Slorah · Smith 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Rule 48. Dismissal (b) By Court. If there is unnecessary delay in presenting the charge to a grand jury or in filing an information against a defendant who has been held to answer to the Superior Court, or if there is unnecessary delay in bringing a defendant to trial, the court may upon motion of the defendant dismiss the indictment, information, or complaint.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. O'Clair““The only bar because of lapse of time, to the institution of proceedings is the statute of limitations.” State v. Boynton, supra, 143 Me. at 322 , 62 A.2d at 188 ; State v Harriman, supra 259 A.2d at 755 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bessey
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.