Grayless v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Emery v. State (1994), Russell v. State (1980)
50 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 · United States v. Marion · Klopfer v. State of North Carolina · United States v. Ewell · Smith v. Hooey
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Soon after his arrest appellant was transferred to Villa Rosa mental hospital, where he spent five months undergoing examination and treatment. Delays encountered in bringing a defendant to trial who claims to be incompetent or who is temporarily incompetent ordinarily do not infringe on the right to a speedy trial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In determining whether a speedy trial has been denied, the length of delay is measured from the time the defendant was accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phillips v. State“is no precise length of delay which irrefutably constitutes a violation of the right to a speedy trial in all cases,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phillips 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.