State v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis

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33 state decisions

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

1. “An interruption of prescription occurs when the state is unable, through no fault of its own, to try a defendant within the period specified by statute, in this case two years.... Once the cause of interruption disappears, the two-year time limit begins anew. See La.Code Crim.Proc.Ann. art. 579(B). In contrast, the prescriptive period is merely suspended, until the trial court rules on the filing of preliminary pleas. The relevant period is simply not counted, and the running of the time limit resumes when the motions are ruled on. Note, however, that "in no case shall the state have less than one year after the ruling to commence the trial." La.Code Crim. Proc.Ann. art. 580. (Footnote omitted)”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 864 So. 2d 824 - State v. Quinones · 997 So. 2d 144 - State v. Tillman

2. “IfiOnce the accused shows that the state has failed to bring him to trial within the time periods specified by La.C.Cr.P. art. 578, the state bears a heavy burden of demonstrating that either an interruption or a suspension of the time limit tolled prescription. State v. Joseph, 93-2734, p. 1 (La.6/3/94), 637 So.2d 1032 ; State v. Rome, 630 So.2d 1284, 1286 (La.1994); State v. Estill, 614 So.2d 709, 710 (La.1993).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 59 So. 3d 568 - State v. GRUDEWICZ · 839 So. 2d 1193 - State v. Buckley