Raburn v. Nash’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 42 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A prisoner does not forfeit his right to a speedy trial solely because he is confined in the penitentiary under sentence for another offense. * * * [Citations omitted] This is particularly true when the state that holds him in prison is the same state that presents 'the indictments. * * *””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Harvey · Zurla v. State

2. ““In this connection, since Klopfer v. North Carolina, 386 U. S. 213 , 18 L. Ed. 2d 1 , 87 S. Ct. 988 , has held the speedy-trial provision of the Sixth Amendment applicable to criminal proceedings in state courts, United States v. Ewell, 383 U. S. 116 , 15 L. Ed. 2d 627 , 86 S. Ct. 773 , is applicable in its declaration that, because of the many procedural safeguards provided an accused, criminal prosecutions are necessarily designed to move at a deliberate pace # • # »>”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 14 Ohio App. 2d 20 - State v. Rice

3. “`the rights given the accused by the constitution and our statutes are shields, not weapons, and being so intended by the legislature, we must give meaning to that intent.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Bishop