United States v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis
537 F.2d 1287 · 1976
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably United States v. Edwards (1978), United States v. Avalos (1976)
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 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. § 46
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · Dillingham v. United States · United States v. Palmer
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]he point at which the defendant asserts his right is important because it may reflect the seriousness of the personal prejudice he is experiencing. . . . To the extent that promptness in asserting the right is important, then appellant's silence during the entire pre-indictment period works against him because it suggests that any hardships he suffered were either minimal or caused by other factors."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"In sum, the tepid nature of the government's conduct, the tardiness of appellant's complaint, and the lack of [proven] substantial personal or defense prejudice resulting from the government's negligence convince us that the lengthy delay here, though certainly not inconsiderable, nonetheless did not deny appellant his Sixth-Amendment right to a speedy trial." Palmer , 537 F.2d at 1289 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the point at which the defendant asserts his right is important because it may reflect the seriousness of the personal prejudice he is experiencing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robinson v. Whitley
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.