624 So. 2d 921 - State v. Firshing’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2014
13 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 · 376 So. 2d 136 - State v. Reaves · 611 So. 2d 165 - State v. Leban · Bryant v. Sears Consumer Financial Corp. · 581 So. 2d 283 - State v. Cowger
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a criminal prosecution is timely instituted in a court of proper jurisdiction and the prosecution is dismissed by the district attorney ... a new prosecution for the same offense or for a lesser offense based on the same facts may be instituted within the time established by this Chapter or within six months from the date of dismissal, whichever is longer. A new prosecution shall not be instituted under this article following a dismissal of the prosecution by the district attorney unless the state shows that the dismissal was not for the purpose of avoiding the time limitation for commencement of trial established by Article 578.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]his practice of nolle prossing to get the State to grant it's [sic] own continuance has to stop.... [I]t's an inequity in the law that maybe should be faced in the light of a broader perspective.... [T]his type of activity in the court system is on it's [sic] face, [violative] of due process.... [T]he State should [not] occupy the role of a Judge, and ... [that's] what's happening in these cases now.... [T]he State should not be able to give itself, on it's [sic] own motion, it's [sic] continuance.”
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.