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← 32 MASSAPPCT 473 - Wolcott

Wolcott’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
December 2017
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Zacarias v. United States · Lewis v. Commonwealth · Brown v. Commissioner of Correction · Averett · Manning v. Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution

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.

  1. “they may be considered 'to evidence the intention of the court in respect of connected sentences' "). In cases where a sentencing scheme is truncated by a decision to vacate a conviction, "the literal language of the trial judge is less significant than the entire sentencing structure as a whole.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “the rationale of [ Brown and Manning ] is that a prisoner should not serve 'dead time' but should receive credit as matter of right for time served under an erroneous conviction”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “they may be considered 'to evidence the intention of the court in respect of connected sentences'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.