Short v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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. “(a) Whenever a person has entered upon a term of imprisonment in a penal or correctional institution of a party state, [7] and whenever during the continuance of the term of imprisonment there is pending in any other party state any untried indictment, information or complaint on the basis of which a detainer has been lodged against the prisoner, he shall be brought to trial at the next term of court after he shall have caused to be delivered to the prosecuting officer and the appropriate court of the prosecuting officer's jurisdiction written notice of the place of his imprisonment and his request for a final disposition to be made of the indictment, information or complaint;. ...”

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

2. “a notification filed with the institution in which a prisoner is serving a sentence, advising that he is wanted to face pending criminal charges in another jurisdiction.”

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

3. “This Court will affirm the district court's decision on any legal ground appearing in the record.”

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