Commonwealth v. Harvey’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chalifoux v. Commissioner of Correction · Miller v. Cox · 10 Mass. App. Ct. 618 - Commonwealth v. Carter · Manning v. Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution · Commonwealth v. Grant
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Fairness suggests that the jail credit the defendant seeks might be awarded if the sentences imposed on the two sets of charges were concurrent. They were not, and therefore, it would be contrary here to the ultimate goal of fairness to allow the defendant to earn two days of credit for every day in jail. Because the defendant had already received credit for the time he spent in jail awaiting trial, the judge did not err in denying the defendant’s request to receive credit for the same period of time on the second set of charges and thus to effectively reduce his sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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