Arnold v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2012
12 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.
Relationships
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · Castor v. United States · United States v. Loud Hawk · Brooks v. Peyton · Fowlkes v. Commonwealth
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a general district court has found that there is probable cause to believe that the accused has committed a felony, the accused, if he is held continuously in custody thereafter, shall be forever discharged from prosecution for such offense if no trial is commenced in the circuit court within five months from the date such probable cause was found by the district court.... If there was no preliminary hearing in the district court, or if such preliminary hearing was waived by the accused, the commencement of the running of the five ... month! ] period! ] ..., set forth in this section, shall be from the date an indictment or presentment is found against the accused.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`new charge[], distinct from the original charge[]....'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“difficulty in securing the attendance of its witnesses and in an effort to preserve a serious criminal charge[,] [t]he record suggests no oppressiveness or unfair trial tactic”
1 later decision 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.