Sutton v. Lopes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[c]redit for time previously served is constitutionally mandated by the double jeopardy clause of the fifth amendment of the United States constitution which is enforceable in state courts through the fourteenth amendment .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Raucci v. Warden State Prison, No. Cv 91 0001025s (Jul. 27, 1992)

2. “Although we did not directly address in Moscone whether time spent in custody pursuant to a sentence which is later vacated is subject to”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Raucci v. Warden State Prison, No. Cv 91 0001025s (Jul. 27, 1992)

3. “plainly provides that `all time . . . credited against the vacated sentence shall be credited against the new sentence,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 1994 Conn. Super. Ct. 6652 - Steve v. Warden, State Prison, No. Cv 92 1512 S (Jun. 15, 1994)