Balkcom v. Gaulding’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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

1. ““While Code Ann. § 77-320 (Ga.L.1956, pp. 161, 178), provides that ‘The State Board of Corrections shall formulate rules and regulations providing for extra good-time allowances in addition to the statutory good time hereafter provided, to be awarded to deserving and exemplary prisoners,’ and ‘ Upon receipt of a prisoner by any prison or county public works camp operated under the jurisdiction of the State Board of Corrections, said Board shall forthwith compute the aggregate of the maximum extra good-time allowances and statutory good-time allowances that said prisoner can possibly earn for the minimum and maximum sentence or sentences imposed thereon’ (emphasis supplied), a probationer is not a prisoner within the meaning of this statute, and, therefore, one serving a sentence on probation is not entitled as a matter of law to statutory or extra good-time allowances. Code Ann. § 77-309; Code Ann. Ch. 27-27. See Brown v. Akin, 80 Ga.App. 309 , 55 S.E.2d 875 , and cases there cited.” 116 S.E.2d at 546 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Post v. Ruth