505 So. 2d 1336 - State v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2009
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 492 So. 2d 1329 - Florida Bar v. Wolf · 419 So. 2d 300 - Sturdivan v. State · 479 So. 2d 229 - State v. Chacon · 487 So. 2d 65 - State Ex Rel. Welch v. CIRCUIT COURT IN AND FOR ESCAMBIA COUNTY · 502 So. 2d 5 - State v. Fields
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.
“"A prosecution is commenced when either an indictment or information is filed, provided the capias, summons, or other process issued on such indictment or information is executed without unreasonable delay. In determining what is reasonable, inability to locate the defendant after diligent search or the defendant's absence from the state shall be considered."”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bonel v. State · Gunn v. State“the word `executed' in section 775.15(5) can only mean service on the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gunn v. State · Lucas v. State
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.