State v. Runge’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2010
13 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 Barker v. Wingo · Gerstein v. Pugh · Frisbie v. Collins · United States v. Ewell · Ker v. People of the State of Illinois
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, in large measure because of the many procedural safeguards provided an accused, the ordinary procedures for criminal prosecution are designed to move at a deliberate pace. A requirement of unreasonable speed would have a deleterious effect both upon the rights of the accused and upon the ability of society to protect itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Krana“.If a criminal action, unless postponed upon defendant’s application, is not brought to trial during or before the second term after the one at which the indictment or information is filed, the court must order the prosecution dismissed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Means
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.