546 So. 2d 1004 - Ex Parte Powers’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 2003
6 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 Godbolt v. State
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.
““The Court of Criminal Appeals correctly interpreted Act No. 182, but it is apparent from a reading of that court’s opinion that the Department of Corrections, in exercising the discretion granted to it under the provisions of Act No. 182, followed an opinion of the attorney general issued in 1976 [164 Informal Op. Atty Gen. 48 (1976)] that held that under Act 182 a qualified prisoner was entitled to only one day of good time for every day served. That opinion incorrectly interpreted the provisions of Act No. 182, as the Court of Criminal Appeals determined.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Act 182 authorizes but does not require the Department of Corrections to grant a qualified inmate up to two days good time for every day he serves. ... This interpretation results in a total daily deduction in sentence of three days: two days good time plus the one day actually served.””
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.