State v. Mango’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 state decisions

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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The right to a ‘speedy trial’ guaranteed by our Constitution does not entitle the accused to an immediate trial. A ‘speedy trial’ to which a defendant in a criminal case is entitled is one conducted according to fixed rules, regulations and proceedings of law free from vexatious, capricious and oppressive delay created by the ministers of justice.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Hare