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← 339 SC 393 - Allen v. State

Allen v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 172 Ill. 2d 452 - People v. Robinson · Staubes v. City of Folly Beach · Paschal v. State Election Commission · Goings v. Missouri Department of Corrections · Durham v. United Companies Financial Corp.

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. “In every case in computing the time served by a prisoner, full credit against the sentence shall be given for time served prior to trial and sentencing. Provided, however, that credit for time served prior to trial and sentencing shall not be given: ... (2) when the prisoner is serving a sentence for one offense and is awaiting trial and sentence for a second offense in which case he shall not receive credit for time served prior to trial in a reduction of his sentence for the second offense.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Where the terms of a statute are clear, the court must apply those terms according to their literal meaning.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “either (1) they were an escapee or (2) the prisoner was already serving a sentence on a different offense.”
    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.