Ruffin v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• providing, as examples, a defendant “going on the lam to avoid prosecution, filing a series of frivolous pretrial motions, or securing the unavailability of a critical prosecution witness”
• trial court’s grant or denial of a motion to dismiss the indictment on speedy trial grounds is reviewed for abuse of discretion only
• “Release on bond does not absolve the State of its constitutional obligation to bring those accused of committing crimes to trial in a speedy manner.”
• one year marks the point where deliberateness in prosecuting a crime turns generally into presumptively prejudicial delay
• appellant must be “dogged” in the assertion of his speedy trial rights
• delay of two years, two months, and twenty-three days was presumptively prejudicial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

155 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ruffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-30· cited 137×
• State v. Porter
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-02-07· cited 120×
• State v. Pickett
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-02-28· cited 103×
• Sosniak v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-19· cited 77×
• State v. Buckner
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-02-04· cited 57×
• State v. Riggs
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-01· cited 57×
• Hayes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-06-15· cited 49×
• Rafi v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 38×
• Phan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 36×
• Weis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-25· cited 33×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-09-22· cited 30×
• Brewington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-02-07· cited 30×
• Shelton R. Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-04-10· cited 30×
• Bowling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 29×
• Sweatman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-10-04· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Carr
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-04-16· cited 27×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 27×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-05· cited 26×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-03-09· cited 25×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-21· cited 25×

Cites

29 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Barker v. Wingo
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 12,108×
• Baker v. McCollan
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-26· cited 5,659×
• United States v. Marion
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-20· cited 3,756×
• Doggett v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-24· cited 3,106×
• Klopfer v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-13· cited 1,817×
• United States v. Ewell
  Supreme Court· 1966-02-23· cited 1,196×
• Smith v. Hooey
  Supreme Court· 1969-01-20· cited 1,132×
• United States v. MacDonald
  Supreme Court· 1982-03-31· cited 917×
• Dickey v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-25· cited 824×
• United States v. MacDonald
  Supreme Court· 1978-05-01· cited 806×
• United States v. Loud Hawk
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-03· cited 786×
• Pollard v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-02-25· cited 744×
• Strunk v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-11· cited 675×
• Moore v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1973-11-05· cited 594×
• United States v. Eight Thousand Eight Hundred & Fifty Dollars
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-23· cited 559×
• United States v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-24· cited 527×
• Smith v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1959-06-08· cited 429×
• Dillingham v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1975-12-01· cited 322×
• Fleming v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-08· cited 184×
• Boseman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-01-24· cited 143×