313 Ga. App. 895 - Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “overcrowded dockets, the government’s failure to provide for sufficient numbers of judges, prosecutors, or indigent defense counsel, neglect by the prosecution or other government agents, mere convenience of the prosecution, or the desire to avoid the expense of separate trials for two defendants involved in the same crime.”

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

2. “In evaluating this final factor, we consider three interests which the speedy trial right is designed to protect: preventing oppressive pretrial incarceration, minimizing anxiety and concern of the defendant, and, most importantly, limiting the possibility that the defense will be impaired.”

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

3. “[O]n appeal, we review the trial court's weighing of each [ Barker - Doggett ] factor and its balancing of all four factors only for abuse of discretion.”

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