Reed v. Farley’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
368 federal appellate · 119 district · 93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 887 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2026 · most notably Bousley v. United States (1998), Lindh v. Murphy (1996)
368 federal appellate · 119 district · 93 state decisions — followed in 24 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
reviewedReed v. Clark (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Barker v. Wingo · Wainwright v. Sykes · United States v. Frady
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 887 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fundamental defect which inherently results in a complete miscarriage of justice.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] showing of prejudice is required to establish a violation of the Sixth Amendment Speedy Trial Clause.” Id. at 353 , 114 S.Ct. 2291 ; but see Barker, 407 U.S. at 533 , 92 S.Ct. 2182 (”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“in custody in violation of the Constitution or laws or treaties of the United States.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schaaf v. Lewis · Gilmore v. Ebbert
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.