Lock v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Maus v. State (1987), State v. Reynolds (1992)
36 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Jackson v. Indiana · Smith v. Crouse · Kerr v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California · Mark Trail Camp Grounds, Inc. v. Field Enterprises, Inc.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who is sentenced shall receive credit toward service of his sentence for time spent in custody pending trial or sentencing, or appeal, if that detention was in connection with the offense for which sentence was imposed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hester v. State · State v. Reynolds“We think that under certain circumstances the restraints imposed as conditions of probation may be so substantial that the defendant is, in legal effect, ‘in custody’ although on probation. Confinement need not be penal in nature to be custodial. McNeil v. Director of Patuxent Institution, 407 U.S. 245 , 92 S.Ct. 2083 , 32 L.Ed.2d 719 (1972).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hester v. State · State v. Reynolds“upon revocation of probation, one is entitled to credit against his sentence on the original offense for time spent as a condition of probation, in a rehabilitation program which imposes substantial restrictions on one’s freedom of movement and behavior.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Nygren v. State · State v. Reynolds
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.