State v. Eckhardt’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 2013
6 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 Dunn v. Jenkins · Consolidation Coal Co. v. Indiana Department of State Revenue · Miller v. Walker · Miller v. Walker
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“credit statutes was to encourage inmates of penal institutions to behave well while confined, to improve their morale, and thus to help the prison authorities to maintain order and control. See State v. Eckhardt, 687 N.E.2d 374, 376 (Ind.Ct.App.1997) (citing Dunn v. Jenkins, 268 Ind. 478, 485 , 377 N.E.2d 868, 873 (1978)). Although not specified in Indiana Code Section 85-50-6-3, our Supreme Court has defined credit time as”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Campbell v. State · Jones v. State“The purpose of the legislature in enacting”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State
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.