231 So. 2d 844 - Dade County v. Carr’s Empirical Analysis

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12 state decisions

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

1. “"3. The caseloads assigned to the assistant public defenders of the Appellate Division of the Office of the Public Defender far exceed the maximum caseloads promulgated by the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, and the Guidelines of the Florida Governor's Commission. * * "4. The excessive caseloads have caused substantial delays in the filing of briefs on behalf of defendants in the District Court of Appeal, Third District. * * As a result of the delays, numerous appeals have been dismissed by the District Court for failure of the Office of the Public Defender to timely file briefs. These delays are harmful to the integrity of the judicial system and threaten the confidence of the public in the judicial system. "5. Unless permitted to withdraw, the Office of the Public Defender will be in jeopardy of impeding the defendant's right to speedy access to the courts as guaranteed by Article I Section 21 of the Constitution of the State of Florida which provides: `The courts shall be open to every person for redress of any injury and justice shall be administered without sale, denial or delay.' The defendant cannot be constitutionally forced to compromise his constitutional right to undelayed review of his conviction in order to protect his right to effective counsel on appeal. "6. Due to the excessive caseloads of the appellate assistant public defenders, effective representation to the defendant as guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendmen”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dade County v. Baker