People v. Chavez’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Exeept as otherwise provided in paragraph (k) of this subsection (1), any offender sentenced to the department of corrections subsequent to placement in a community corrections program is entitled to credit against the term of confinement as de-seribed in section 17-27-104(9), C.R.S8. The court shall make a finding of the amount of such time credits and include such finding in the mittimus that orders the offender to be placed in the custody of the department of corrections. The department of corree-tions shall apply credits for residential and nonresidential time completed in a community corrections program in the same manner as credits for the time served in a department of correctlons famhty”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Pimble

2. “defendant continued to enjoy many of the freedoms that those who have never been convicted of a crime enjoy, such as working, attending school, and socializing with family and friends”

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

3. “€œ[t]o be eligible for presentence-confinement credit, an offender must have been actually confined.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Pimble