Lightsey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably 550 So. 2d 406 - Smith v. State (1989), Gray v. State (1998)
46 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 · Illinois v. Somerville · 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State · 419 So. 2d 194 - Clay Bohn Chrysler, Inc. v. Lizana · 463 So. 2d 1059 - Bailey v. State
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`time of a formal indictment or information or else the actual restraints imposed by arrest and holding to a criminal charge.'”
13 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Craft v. State · Spencer v. State“(1) length of delay, (2) the reason for the delay, (3) the defendant's assertion of his right, and (4) prejudice to the defendant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[F]or a plea of former jeopardy to avail it must be shown that a defendant was actually acquitted or convicted in a former trial on the merits of the crime for which he is again sought to be convicted.”
2 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.