Serrano v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1992 · most notably Duckworth v. Serrano (1981), Sypniewski v. State (1977)
28 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 Baker v. State · Easton v. State · Vacendak v. State · Utterback v. State · Zupp 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The logic of such holding is that while a defendant may not be required to take affirmative action to bring himself to trial, other than to request an early trial if desired, if he sits idly by at a time when the court could yet grant to him a trial date within the proper period and permits the court, without objection, to set a date beyond the expiration of such period, he will be deemed to have acquiesced therein. ‘. . . The courts are under legal and moral mandate to protect the constitutional rights of accused persons, but this should not entirely relieve them from acting reasonably in their own behalf. We will vigorously enforce the right to a speedy trial, but we do not intend that accused persons should escape trial by abuse of the means that we have designed for their protection.’ Utterback v. State, (supra) [(1974) 261 Ind. 685, 688 , 310 N.E.2d 552, 554 ].””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pethtel 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.