State v. Ladd’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 233 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 235 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Pachay (1980), State v. Brown (2002)
2 federal appellate · 233 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 Barker v. Wingo · Klopfer v. State of North Carolina · State v. MacDonald · State v. Pugh
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 235 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The rationale supporting [the speedy-trial statute] was to prevent inexcusable delays caused by indolence within the judicial system.'”
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,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“(C) A person against whom a charge of felony is pending: "* * * "(2) Shall be brought to trial within two hundred seventy days after his arrest. "* * * "(E) For purposes of computing time under divisions (A), (B), (C)(2), and (D) of this section, each day during which the accused is held in jail in lieu of bail on the pending charge shall be counted as three days. * * *”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.