Compton v. Lytle’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably State v. Maestas (2006), State v. Paredez (2004)
35 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Gomez · State v. Henderson · Quintana v. New Mexico Department of Corrections · Clark v. Tansy · Stinbrink v. Farmers Ins. Co. of Arizona
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The provisions of this section shall not be interpreted as providing eligibility to earn meritorious deductions from a sentence of life imprisonment or a sentence of death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Tafoya“explicitly concluded that the benefits of good-time credits has been outweighed by the benefits of imprisonment for a specific period of time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Tafoya“the Legislature intended that only inmates convicted of noncapital crimes receive the benefit of good-time credits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Tafoya
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.