State v. Tuggle’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The rights of an accused to a speedy trial are guaranteed by Article 2, § 24, of the Arizona Constitution 1 and the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. The question of denial of the right to a speedy trial resulting from a delay in prosecution was considered by this court in Palmer v. State, 99 Ariz. 93 , 407 P.2d 64 . In that case, a federal prisoner in Leavenworth, Kansas, petitioned this court for a writ of habeas corpus, asking for dismissal of prosecution on two counts of robbery pending in the Superior Court of Arizona. The petitioner contended, among other things, that he had been deprived of the fundamental right to a speedy trial because of failure of the State of Arizona and the County of Maricopa to prosecute actively or grant a preliminary hearing for eighteen months. We there reaffirmed our holding in State v. Maldonado, 92 Ariz. 70 , 373 P.2d 583 , cert. denied, 371 U.S. 928 , 83 S.Ct. 299 , 9 L.Ed.2d 236 , that the right to a speedy trial attaches at the time the accused is held to answer, and found no deprivation of this right by the delay in prosecution antecedent to petitioner’s being held to answer. As the prosecution was conducted with dispatch in compliance with the applicable rules subsequent to defendant’s commitment, Palmer v. State, supra, is controlling in the determination of the question in the instant case and we find no denial of defendant’s right to a speedy trial. We held in both Palmer v. State, supra, and Stat”

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