Pate v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably Sharp v. State (1986), Phipps v. State (1982)
53 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 Barfield v. State · Wade v. State · Fraire v. State
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 1. A court shall grant a motion to set aside an indictment, ... if the state is not ready for trial within: (1) 120 days of the commencement of a criminal action if the defendant is accused of a felony; * * * * * * Section 2. (a) ... a criminal action commences for purposes of this article when an indictment . . . against the defendant is filed in court, unless prior to the filing the defendant is either detained in custody or released on bail or personal bond to answer for the same offense or any other offense arising out of the same transaction, in which event the criminal action commences when he is arrested. (Emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Richardson 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.