310 Ga. App. 590 - Weems v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The length of the pretrial delay in absolute terms plays a role in the threshold determination of presumptive prejudice. However, it also wears another hat as one of the four interrelated criteria that must be weighed in the balance at the second stage of the Barker-Doggett analysis.”

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

2. “When addressing the first factor of the Barker-Doggett test, the length of delay plays a different role than in the first stage of this analysis and is not given the same degree of weight. Rather, the length of delay is considered in balance with the three other factors.”

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

3. “the mere passage of time is not enough, without more, to constitute a denial of due process.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. WIMBUSH v. the STATE.