State v. Meeker’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably State v. Adams (Slip Opinion) (2015), State v. Luck (1984)
82 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Benton v. Maryland · Klopfer v. State of North Carolina · Smith v. Hooey · Dickey v. Florida
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he [state and federal] constitutional guarantees of a speedy trial are applicable to unjustifiable delays in commencing prosecution, as well as to unjustifiable delays after indictment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Considering the basic purposes of the constitutional right to a `speedy trial,' we conclude that such constitutional guarantees are applicable to unjustifiable delays in commencing prosecution as well as to unjustifiable delays after indictment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n any trial, in any court, the party accused shall be allowed * * * to have * * * a speedy public trial.”
2 later decisions 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.