People v. Chavez’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Good time. Each person sentenced for a crime committed on or after July 1, 1979, whose conduct indicates that he has substantially observed all of the rules and regulations of the institution or facility in which he has been confined and has faithfully performed the duties assigned to him shall be entitled to a good time deduction of fifteen days a month from his sentence. The good time authorized by this section shall vest quarterly and may not be withdrawn once it has vested No more than forty-five days of good time may be withheld by the department in any one quarter. No person subject to the good time credits of article 20 of this title shall be eligible for any good time deduction authorized by this article.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Cooper · People v. McCall

2. “a defendant is entitled to have the amount of presentence confinement credited against the term of his sentence for crimes committed on or after July 1, 1979,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Grenemyer v. Gunter

3. “[W]here a statute is capable of two possible meanings[,] the construction that will entitle the prisoner to release at the earlier time should be adopted.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Houston