State v. McBreen’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
168 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 168 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. King (1994), State v. Pachay (1980)
168 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 State v. Singer · 15 Cal. 3d 774 - Townsend v. Superior Court · State v. Lee · State v. Pudlock · State v. Davis
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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant's right to be brought to trial within the time limits expressed in R.C. 2945.71 may be waived by his counsel for reasons of trial preparation and the *Page 7 defendant is bound by the waiver even though the waiver is executed without his consent.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he period of any continuance granted on the accused's own motion, and the period of any reasonable continuance granted other than upon the accused's own motion.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“the authority to execute the waivers of time provisions for the purpose of trial preparation”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Graham · State v. Watkins
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.