Wallace v. Kern’s Empirical Analysis
499 F.2d 1345 · 1974
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2023
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · Younger v. Harris · United States v. Ewell · Smith v. Hooey · Cass v. United States
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Relief from unconstitutional delays in criminal trials is not available in wholesale lots. Whether an individual has been denied his right to a speedy trial must be determined ad hoc on a case-by-ease basis.” 499 F.2d at 1351 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wallace v. Kern · Cicero v. Olgiati“In so holding, we wrote that under principles known as comity a federal district court has not power to intervene in the internal procedures of the state courts. We observed that the federal courts cannot legislate and engraft new procedures upon existing state criminal practices. Such interference with the state criminal process in both pending and future bail proceedings, would violate principles of comity established in Younger .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hernandez v. Carbone
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.