State v. Stell’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2015
22 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 Hand v. State · Lacros v. State · Alvarez v. State · 320 So. 2d 880 - State Ex Rel. Wright v. Yawn · 335 So. 2d 638 - State v. Darnell
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]ith limitations not pertinent here, the State has the right to amend an information without leave of court, and the filing of a signed and sworn amended information has the legal effect on the original information of a nolle prosequi "). During the lunch recess, the state attorney apparently realized the consequence of her earlier decision to file the second amended information. Upon returning to the courtroom, she tried to abandon the second amended information and verbally reinstate the first amended information. The state attorney and the trial judge came to the conclusion that the second amended information could not have been legally filed and proceeded upon without permission of the court. The trial judge wrote the following statement on the face of the second amended information: "Leave to amend denied by court[.] Contemporaneously State withdrew the Amended Information. Lauren C. Laughlin 9/16/99.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clements v. State“An information on which the defendant is to be tried that charges an offense may be amended on the motion of the prosecuting attorney or defendant any time prior to trial because of formal defects.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ford
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.