State v. Patton’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently July 2004 · most notably State v. Johnson (1969), State v. Hamilton (1965)
3 federal appellate · 53 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 Fay v. Noia · Pollard v. United States · United States v. Pink · Beavers v. Haubert · Freshman v. Atkins
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Court said in Beavers v. Haubert, 198 U.S. 77 , 49 L. ed. 950, 954: ‘The right of a speedy trial is necessarily relative. It is consistent with delays and depends upon circumstances. It secures rights to a defendant. It does not preclude the rights of public justice.’ “The constitutional right to a speedy trial is designed to prohibit arbitrary and oppressive delays which might be caused by the fault of the prosecution. Pollard v. United States, 352 U.S. 354 , 1 L. ed. 2d 393; State v. Hadley, Mo., 249 S.W. 2d 857 . The right to a speedy trial on the merits is not. designed as a sword for defendant’s escape, but as a shield for his protection.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cavallaro · Tiner 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.