Payne v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2011
20 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.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unless good cause be shown, and a continuance duly granted by the court, all offenses for which indictments are presented to the court shall be tried no later than two hundred seventy (270) days after the accused has been arraigned.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ford v. State · Little v. State“[t]his statute is plain and unambiguous.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he only question remains is whether or not the delay comes within the framework of the exceptions in the statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.