Handley v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2009
10 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 Commonwealth v. Hunt · Tarrance v. Commonwealth
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Time spent in custody prior to the commencement of a sentence as a result of the charge that culminated in the sentence shall be credited by the Court imposing sentence toward service of the maximum term of imprisonment. If the sentence is to be indeterminate term of imprisonment, the time spent in custody prior to the commencement of such sentence shall be considered for all purposes as time served in prison.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rose v. Commonwealth“When a person commits an offense while awaiting trial for another offense, and is subsequently convicted or enters a plea of guilty to the offense committed while awaiting trial, the sentence imposed for the offense committed while awaiting trial shall not run concurrently with confinement for the offense for which that person is awaiting trial, (emphasis, ours).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rose v. Commonwealth“A definite (a misdemeanor pursuant to KRS 532.090) and an indeterminate (a felony pursuant to KRS 532.060) term shall run concurrently and both sentences shall be satisfied by service of the indeterminate term; (explanation, ours).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rose v. Commonwealth
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.