429 So. 2d 1172 - Taylor v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2011
17 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 · Smith v. Hooey · Strunk v. United States · United States of America Ex Rel. Kahmid Solomon, Relator-Appellant v. Vincent R. Mancusi, Warden of Attica Prison · Prince v. Alabama
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although negligence is not weighed as heavily against the State as a deliberate attempt to delay the trial in order to hamper the defense, . . . it must nevertheless be weighed against the State 'since the ultimate responsibility for such circumstances must rest with the government rather than the defendant.' * * * While negligence on the part of the State in bringing the accused to trial will 'not necessarily tip the scale in favor of the *Page 1311 defendant,'. . . 'just simple government bureaucracy' and 'sheer bureaucratic indifferences' weigh heavily against the State in determining whether an accused has been deprived of his right to a speedy trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he possibility that the defendant already in prison might receive a sentence at least partially concurrent with the one he is serving may be forever lost if trial of the pending charge is postponed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Under the Sixth Amendment, a showing of unreasonable delay, plus substantial proof of prejudice, mandates a holding that the constitutionally guaranteed speedy trial has been denied.”
1 later decision 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.