State v. Knight’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “[T]he court’s discretion in withholding credit for jail time cannot be used to impose sentences in violation of Neb. Rev. Stat. § 83-1 ,105(1) (Reissue 1981) [which] requires that in imposing an indeterminate sentence “the minimum limit fixed by the court shall not be . . . more than one-third of the maximum term....””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Hoffman