347 So. 2d 1132 - State v. Driever’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Pachay (1980), 630 So. 2d 1284 - State v. Rome (1994)
25 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3161 (§ 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974)
Relies on Mackey v. United States · Shepherd v. United States · Metairie Bank & Trust Co. v. Wendryhoski, Deblanc & Associates · 307 So. 2d 621 - State v. Cain
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot be tried because of insanity or because his presence for trial cannot be obtained by legal process, or for any other cause beyond the control of the state.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he court system cannot excuse itself from affording an accused a trial within the delay required by law, simply by relying upon internal operating procedures which result in noncompliance with the statutory mandate.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Caston · State v. Dartez“bears the heavy burden of showing that it is excused from trying the accused on a charge later than the period mandated by Article 578.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.