Eldred v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably State v. Torres (1999), Commonwealth v. Burge (1997)
41 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 Blockburger v. United States · Davis v. Alaska · Pennsylvania v. Ritchie · United States v. Dixon · Grady v. Corbin
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The length of delay; (2) Whether there have been any previous continuances; (3) The inconvenience to the litigants, witnesses, counsel, and the court; (4) Whether the delay is purposeful or caused by the accused; (5) The availability of competent counsel, if at issue; (6) The complexity of the case; and (7) Whether denying the continuance would lead to any identifiable prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There is no issue in this case concerning Appellant's counsel, or any potential substitute counsel, as would arise if there were an attempt to withdraw by counsel on the eve of trial as a result of a breakdown of communications between counsel and client.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Second, the continuance was the first sought by anyone, which distinguishes ... most other death penalty cases, where numerous continuances are the rule rather than the exception.”
1 later decision 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.