41 Colo. App. 206 - People v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably Metropolitan Gas Repair Service, Inc. v. Kulik (1980), Johnson v. Insurance Co. of North America (1986)
46 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Harrington v. DIST. CT. IN AND FOR COUNTY OF MORGAN · Chambers v. District Court in & for Cty. of Arapahoe · 37 Colo. App. 39 - Shoptaugh v. BOARD OF COUNTY COM'RS OF EL PASO CTY. · Simakis v. DISTRICT COURT OF FIFTH JUD., ETC. · 37 Colo. App. 531 - People v. Wilkinson
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) Whenever a person has entered upon a term of imprisonment in a penal or correctional institution of a party state, and whenever during the continuance of the term of imprisonment there is pending in any other party state any untried indictment, information, or complaint on the basis of which a detainer has been lodged against the prisoner, he shall be brought to trial within one hundred eighty days after he shall have caused to be delivered to the prosecuting officer and the appropriate court of the prosecuting officer’s jurisdiction written notice of the place of his imprisonment and his request for a final disposition to be made of the indictment, information or complaint; provided that for good cause shown in open court, the prisoner or his counsel being present, the court having jurisdiction of the matter may grant any necessary or reasonable continuance. The request of the prisoner shall be accompanied by a certificate of the appropriate official having custody of the prisoner, stating the term of commitment under which the prisoner is being held, the time already served, the time remaining to be served on the sentence, the amount of good time earned, the time of parole eligibility of the prisoner, and any decisions of the state parole agency relating to the prisoner. “(b) The written notice and request for final disposition referred to in paragraph (a) hereof shall be given or sent by the prisoner to the warden, commissioner of corrections, or other official having”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Boos · People v. Jacobs“the burden of compliance with statutory time requirements is on the prosecution and the trial court”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Allen
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.