Sweeney v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Ben-Yisrayl v. State (2000), Reed v. State (2006)
1 federal appellate · 64 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 · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Barker v. Wingo · Mapp v. Ohio
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(C) Defendant Discharged. No person shall be held on recognizance or otherwise to answer a criminal charge for a period in aggregate embracing more than one year from the date the criminal charge against such defendant is filed, or from the date of his arrest on such charge, whichever is later; except where a continuance was had on his motion, or the delay was caused by his act, or where there was not sufficient time to try him during such period because of congestion of the court calendar.... Any defendant so held shall, on motion, be discharged.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Stinson v. State · McCloud v. State“A crime may not be proven solely on the basis of a confession. There must be some other proof of the crime, in order to prevent confessions to crimes which never occurred. In Indiana, to support the introduction of a defendant’s confession into evidence, the corpus delicti of the crime must be established by independent evidence of (1) the occurrence of the specific kind of injury and (2) someone’s criminal act as the cause of the injury. [T]he independent evidence need not be shown beyond a reasonable doubt; rather, the evidence need only provide an inference that a crime was committed. Such inference may be established through circumstantial evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“While it may be reasonable to impose the time limit of Criminal Rule 4 ... when a criminal defendant is within the exclusive control of the State of Indiana, for purposes of certainty and ease of administration of the rule, it becomes irrational to extend its application to a defendant who is incarcerated in another jurisdiction which has an interest in retaining the defendant in its custody, either for trial or to serve a sentence.”
2 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.