Mitchell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Gaito v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole (1980), 38 Pa. Commw. 488 - Davis v. CUYLER (1978)
28 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 Morrissey v. Brewer · Commonwealth ex rel. Rambeau v. Rundle · 234 Pa. Super. 31 - Commonwealth v. Davis · Commonwealth ex rel. Bleecher v. Rundle · Commonwealth v. Bigley
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]nce the Board ... lodges its detainer or causes a parolee to be arrested on its warrant, a parolee is in the custody of the Board and is no longer incarcerated "for the offense or offenses for which such sentence is imposed".... The Board, not being compelled to lodge a detainer against a prisoner who will remain incarcerated in any event, must abide by the consequences of its election to do so. We recognize that this holding puts us in direct conflict with the position adopted by the Superior Court in [Bigley] that Section 17 of the [Parole] Act, 61 P.S. § 331.17, placing exclusive discretionary power in the Board to recommit parole violators, extends this far. This section ... does not grant to the Board authority to deny a prisoner credit for time incarcerated while in the Board's custody subject to its detainer or warrant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““A sentence to imprisonment shall be deemed to commence and shall be computed from the date of commitment for the offense or offenses for which such sentence is imposed, which date shall be specified by the judge. Credit, to be calculated by the clerk of court, shall be given as provided by law for any days spent in custody by the defendant for such offense or offenses prior to the imposition of sentence.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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