Lloyd v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 state decisions

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The State had complete control over submission of the evidence. The assistant district attorney said he would not go to a grand jury without a chemist’s report.... We note that there is no requirement that the State present a chemist’s report to the grand jury in order to prove probable cause for an indictment.... We do not believe that holding suspected drugs for more than a month before submitting them for analysis, and then relying upon the absence of the chemists’ report to argue “unavailability”, is entirely ingenuous. This delay does not constitute an exceptional circumstance....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex Parte Mallares

2. “Sec. 4. In computing the time by which the state must be ready for trial, the following periods shall be excluded: (1) a reasonable period of delay resulting from other proceedings involving the defendant, including but not limited to proceedings for the determination of competence to stand trial, hearing on pretrial motions, appeals, and trials of other charges; ... (10) any other reasonable period of delay that is justified by exceptional circumstances.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McClellan v. State

3. “Section 1. A court shall grant a motion to set aside an indictment, information, or complaint if the state is not ready for trial within: (1) 120 days of the commencement of a criminal action if the defendant is accused of a felony[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. August v. State