344 So. 2d 1049 - State v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2018
16 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 Barker v. Wingo · United States v. Marion · Strunk v. United States · Boesche v. Udall · Mann v. United States
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Upon the expiration of the limitations established by this Chapter, the court shall, upon motion of the defendant, dismiss the indictment. This right of dismissal is waived unless the motion to quash is made prior to trial. "If the indictment is dismissed under this article, there shall be no further prosecution against the defendant for the same or a lesser offense based on the same facts." (Emphasis supplied.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Here, the aggravated burglary of the empty residence had completely taken place before [the victim] returned home.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McFarland · State v. Gray“When a criminal prosecution is timely instituted in a court of proper jurisdic tion. and the prosecution is dismissed -by the district attorney with the defendant’s consent, or before the first witness is sworn at the trial on the merits, or the indictment is dismissed by a court for any error, defect,' irregularity, ‘ or ’deficiency, a new prosecution for the same offense or for a lesser offense based on the same facts may be instituted within the time, established-by this Chapter or within six, months from the date of dismissal, whichever is.longer. A new. prosecution, shall not be instituted under this article following a, dismissal of the prosecution -by, the district attorney unless the state shows that the dismissal was -not for the purpose of avoiding the time limitation |fifor commencement of trial established by Article 578. -”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gray
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.