Elliott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2024
6 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 Stevens 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) ... an inmate committed by any court in Arkansas to a county jail... in the State of Arkansas may be entitled to a reduction, to be known as “meritorious good time,” from his maximum term up to ten (10) days for each month served.... (b) Meritorious good time shall be awarded under the rules and regulations promulgated by the county sheriff... and approved by the county quorum court.... It shall be administared by the county sheriff... subject to the provisions of this subchapter, for good discipline, good behavior, work practices, and job responsibility within the county ... jail.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Upton 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.