In re Griffith’s Empirical Analysis

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10 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. “"The policy of the law is, that the accused shall have a prompt and speedy public trial before the proofs of his guilt or innocence have been obliterated. This purpose would not be accomplished by holding that the filing of a complaint alone operated as a bar to the statute [of limitations], because complaints might be lodged before magistrates upon which no warrants would issue or arrests be made, and of which the public, as well as the accused, would have no knowledge until such time as interested persons might cause warrants to be issued and arrests to be made. If this were permitted, prosecutions for supposed offenses could thus be kept alive and delayed indefinitely, and the accused, who at first was prepared with the proofs of his innocence, might, after the period of limitation fixed by the law, be lulled into a sense of security, and fail to preserve such proofs; and when a warrant is issued long after the statutory limitation, as was done in this case, he might, by reason of the delay, be entirely unprepared to meet the charge. " (Emphasis added.) 35 Kan. at 380 [ 11 P. 174 ].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re PRG

2. ““The complaint is the initiative step to determine whether a prosecution shall be commenced, and the warrant does not necessarily follow the making and filing of the complaint, as is the case where an indictment or information is filed.” (Page 379.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Smith