Meshell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 177 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 182 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Rose v. State (1988), Harris v. State (1992)
3 federal appellate · 177 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3161 (§ 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974)
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · United States v. Marion · United States v. Lovasco · Dunn v. Blumstein
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 182 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The powers of the Government of the State of Texas shall be divided into three distinct departments, each of which shall be confided to a separate body of magistracy, to wit: Those which are Legislative to one; those which are Executive to another, and those which are Judicial to another; and no person, or collection of persons, being of one of these departments, shall exercise any power properly attached to either of the others, except in the instances herein expressly permitted.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“If a motion to set aside an indictment, information, or complaint for failure to provide a speedy trial as required by Article 32A.02 is sustained, the court shall discharge the defendant. A discharge under this article is a bar to any further prosecution for the offense discharged or for any other offense arising out of the same transaction.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Ex Parte Young · Lopez v. State“attempted to provide procedural guidelines for statutory enforcement of a defendant's constitutional right to a speedy trial,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.