Hardy v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
343 F.2d 233 · 1964
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2008 · most notably Dickey v. Florida (1970), Ross v. United States (1965)
48 federal appellate · 10 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 Nickens v. United States · Cratty v. United States · Kelly v. United States · Smith v. United States · Fletcher v. United States
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.
“Conceivably in some circumstances the court, in assessing the nature of a delay before trial, might look to the aggregate time lapse from alleged act to trial date, but in the first instance each segment must be viewed separately[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ferrie“generally the trial court would be 'well advised' to [give the cautionary instruction] and would have been on sounder ground had it given the cautionary instruction here.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“we had did [sic ] time in the penitentiary together.”
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.