Klopfer v. State of North Carolina’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
482 federal appellate · 89 district · 2,069 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,171 later decisions (88 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Barker v. Wingo (1972), In the Matter of Samuel Winship (1970)
482 federal appellate · 89 district · 2,069 state decisions — followed in 50 states
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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Pointer v. Texas · Malloy v. Hogan · United States v. Ewell
Cited together with Barker v. Wingo · United States v. Marion · Smith v. Hooey · United States v. Ewell · 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 3,171 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is as fundamental as any of the rights secured by the Sixth Amendment.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The history of the right to a speedy trial and its reception in this country clearly establish that it is one of the most basic rights preserved by our Constitution.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“anxiety and concern accompanying public accusation,”
15 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.