Barker v. Wingo’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
3,615 federal appellate · 533 district · 11,765 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19,141 later decisions (122 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Schneckloth v. Bustamonte (1973), Wainwright v. Sykes (1977)
3,615 federal appellate · 533 district · 11,765 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBarker v. Wingo (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Boykin v. Alabama · Johnson v. Zerbst · United States v. Marion
Cited together with United States v. Marion · Smith v. Hooey · Doggett v. United States · United States v. Lovasco · Klopfer v. State of North Carolina
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 19,141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[l]ength of delay, the reason for the delay, the defendant's assertion of his right, and prejudice to the defendant.”
1,108 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial.”
125 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[I]nordinate delay between public charge and trial ... wholly aside from possible prejudice to a defense on the merits, may “seriously interfere with the defendant’s liberty, whether he is free on bad or not, and ... may disrupt his employment, drain his financial resources, curtail his associations, subject him to public obloquy, and create anxiety in him, his family and his friends.””
48 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.