498 So. 2d 788 - Beavers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Taylor v. State (1996), 550 So. 2d 406 - Smith v. State (1989)
44 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 · United States v. Marion · Baker v. McCollan · United States v. Gonzalez · 419 So. 2d 194 - Clay Bohn Chrysler, Inc. v. Lizana
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No mathematical formula exists according to which the Barker weighing and balancing process must be performed. The weight to be given each factor necessarily turns on the quality of evidence available on each and, in the absence of evidence, identification of the party with the risk of nonpersuasion. In the end, no one factor is dispositive. The totality of the circumstances must be considered.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Fisher v. State · Polk v. State“[a] defendant has no duty to bring himself to trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“in favor of the prosecution (or in the absence of the defendant's position on the other Barker factors being weak)”
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.