Fex v. Michigan’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 12 district · 297 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 433 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2025 · most notably Reed v. Farley (1994), United States v. Collins (1996)
61 federal appellate · 12 district · 297 state decisions — followed in 39 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 Houston v. Lack · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · Smith v. Hooey · United States v. Mauro · Cuyler v. Adams
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 433 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall be brought to trial within one hundred and 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 final disposition to be made of the indictment, information, or complaint.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“has actually been delivered to the [district] court and prosecuting officer of the jurisdiction that lodged the detainer against him.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a request filed by a criminal justice agency with the institution in which a prisoner is incarcerated, asking that the prisoner be held for the agency, or that the agency be advised when the prisoner's release is imminent.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Barney · Bowling v. State
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.