Douglas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2018
1 federal appellate · 9 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 Strickland v. Washington · Terry v. State · DeHaan v. DeHaan · Bellmore v. State · Vanderburgh County Board of Commissioners v. Rittenhouse
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“From [1985] until 1991, Douglas was represented by the State Public Defender’s Office. After waiting more than four years for action on his petition, Douglas hired private counsel to proceed with his petition. We refuse to penalize Douglas for the delays caused by the Public Defender’s Office. One arm of the State (the Prosecutor) may not take advantage of a delay created by another arm of the State (the Public Defender) to the detriment of the defendant. While we recognize the burdensome caseload of the Public Defender’s Office and the high turnover of attorneys resulting in delays, as between a'defendant and the State, the defendant will not be penalized for the delays. The PCR court’s findings do not support the conclusion that Douglas unreasonably delayed seeking relief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Laches] is the neglect for an unreasonable length of time, under circumstances permitting diligence, to do what in law should have been done. It is an implied waiver arising from knowledge of existing conditions and an acquiescence in them, the neglect to assert a right, as taken in conjunction with the lapse of time, more or less great, and other circumstances causing prejudice to the other party and thus acting as a bar in a court of equity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]t the time the jury was instructed in Douglas’s trial, July 8,1983, the instruction was a correct statement of the law. At that time, Ind.Code 35-41-3-5(b) provided that voluntary intoxication was a defense “only to the extent that it negates an element of an offense referred to by the phrase ‘with intent to’ or ‘with an intention to.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Douglas 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.