State v. Dees’s Empirical Analysis

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4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When a criminal prosecution is timely instituted in a court of proper jurisdiction and the prosecution is dismissed by the district attorney . . . before the first witness is sworn at the trial on the merits, . . . 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.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 983 So. 2d 191 - State v. Chisolm · 971 So. 2d 389 - State v. Gibson

2. “[t]he jurisprudence, however, has recognized that this authority may be overborne under the circumstances of any given case by the defendant's constitutional right to a speedy trial.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 983 So. 2d 191 - State v. Chisolm · 971 So. 2d 389 - State v. Gibson