Sutton v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[n]lo statute or other law required the court to also credit the time served before trial towards the probation it ordered for Defendant.... It is not our job to judicially legislate new law on this point by imposing such a requirement on trial courts. That is a matter for the Legislature. We also note that if there were a statute requiring that such credit be given towards probation, then the overall penalty imposed in this case would exceed the statutorily prescribed limits for the offense in question, and would be an illegal sentence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. State

2. “the time served of 352 days shall not apply to the term of imprisonment ordered as a condition of probation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. State