658 So. 2d 660 - State v. Spence’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 2018
5 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 Rodriguez v. New York · 110 So. 2d 654 - Williams v. State · 520 So. 2d 250 - State v. Pettis · 450 So. 2d 203 - State v. Vazquez · Y.S. 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Upon the [S]tate's announcement of a nol pros of the information, which was self-executing, the case was effectively nullified and the proceeding terminated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he filing of [a] nolle pros by the State may have awesome consequences which should be contemplated before such action is taken.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e cannot reach back and rule and determine the validity of orders entered in a previous case that is no longer in existence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.