People v. Lowe’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on People v. Morey · People v. Williams · Baraga County v. State Tax Commission · People v. Stone · People v. Smith
Most-quoted passages
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“[U]nder Michigan’s scheme of indeterminate sentencing and the courts’ implementation of that scheme, the “term otherwise authorized” is not exclusively the minimum sentence or the maximum sentence, but it is the actual indeterminate sentence, which is defined by both the minimum and maximum limits for that sentence. In other words, the “period of time” that a defendant could potentially spend in prison lies somewhere between the minimum and the maximum allowable sentences, and accordingly those sentences operate in tandem to define the “term” for which a defendant has been sentenced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shaya v. Holder
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.