Dickey v. Florida’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
376 federal appellate · 78 district · 884 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,615 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Barker v. Wingo (1972), United States v. Marion (1971)
376 federal appellate · 78 district · 884 state decisions — followed in 46 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 Chapman v. State of California · Johnson v. Zerbst · United States v. Wade · Escobedo v. Illinois · Duncan v. State of Louisiana
Cited together with Barker v. Wingo · Smith v. Hooey · Klopfer v. State of North Carolina · United States v. Marion · United States v. Ewell
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 1,615 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`is premised upon the reality that fundamental unfairness is likely in overlong prosecutions.'”
34 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Although a great many accused persons seek to put off the confrontation as long as possible, the right to a prompt inquiry into criminal charges is fundamental and the duty of the charging authority is to provide a prompt trial.”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A defendant may be disentitled to the speedy-trial safeguard in the case of a delay for which he has, or shares, responsibility. It has been held, for example, that an accused cannot sus tain a speedy-trial claim when delay results from . . . making dilatory pleadings or motions, failing to object when a continuance is granted the government . . . ””
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.