State v. Honeycutt’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Shirrell v. Missouri Edison Co. · State Ex Rel. Griffin v. Smith · State v. Smith · State v. Harper · State v. Gardner
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] prosecutor has broad discretion to determine when, if, and how criminal laws are to be enforced, and [ ] this decision is seldom subject to judicial review.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] key reason for this rule is that the prosecutor may know far more about the background of the case and the defendant than appears of record before the court, and even if the record causes a judge to believe that a case should or should not be dismissed, it should therefore be left to the prosecutor to exercise discretion to dismiss a case or allow it to continue. Once a prosecutor dismisses a case without prejudice, a court, thus, has no authority to convert the dismissal to one with prejudice or to force the prosecutor to trial.... [Tjhis Court expressly affirms that a trial judge does not have the inherent authority to dismiss a case with prejudice for failure to prosecute in the absence of a speedy trial violation.[ 4 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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