Dotson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 1991 · most notably 166 Ind. App. 395 - Dowdell v. State (1975), Fryback v. State (1980)
30 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 Dembowski v. State · Hobbs v. State · Sargeant v. State · State v. BRIDENHAGER · McDougall v. State
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A reading of these two statutes reveals that one who is serving an indeterminate sentence may have a good time diminution of his minimum sentence in order to make him eligible for parole while one serving a determinate sentence is entitled to a good time diminution off of his sentence leading to a discharge. By way of example, if a prisoner were given a determinate sentence of 20 years he would be discharged, taking into account his good time diminution, after 12 years and 6 months; but a prisoner serving an indeterminate sentence of ten to twenty years with good time diminution would only be eligible for parole after six years and eight months and thereafter be under parole up to a possible 20 years. “We must start in a consideration of this question with the proposition that the maximum severity of the penalty for a given crime is the measure we use in determining whether the penalty in one crime is greater than that in another. Boyd v. State (1971), 257 Ind. 546 , 275 N.E.2d 797 . “The Appellant claims that he would be no worse off if he had been given a 20 year determinate sentence such as exists for Armed Robbery rather than the indeterminate sentence of 10 to 20 years for Robbery by Putting in Fear. Of course, he is assuming his conduct would be good and that there would be no violation of the conditions under which one gains good time. We cannot make such assumptions that such conditions would exist in this opinion. “It is true that if he behaves himself well and conf”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kennedy v. State · Hamblen v. State““All penalties shall be proportioned to the nature of the offense.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. State · Hamblen v. State
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.