Nowak v. Suthers’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
April 2021
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on People v. Luther · Charnes v. Boom · Goedecke v. State, Dept. of Institutions · People v. Madden · Kodama v. Johnson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when any inmate has been committed under several convictions with separate sentences, the department shall construe all sentences as one continuous sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Diehl v. Weiser“fifty percent of the sentence imposed ... less any time authorized for earned time granted pursuant to section 17-22.5-405.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Diehl v. Weiser“A commonly accepted meaning is preferred over a strained or forced interpretation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.