Rowell v. Dutton’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 2007
8 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 Adams v. Russell · 10 Smith & H. 101 - State Ex Rel. Bedford v. McCorkle · Smith v. Thompson
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] records clerk at the Tennessee State Penitentiary, and ... the senior records clerk at the Central Records Division of the Department of Correction ... [t]heir testimony revealed that the appellant had also received two hundred sixty (260) days of Program Participation Sentence Credits (PPSC) as of the date that his sentence was commuted in December 1979. After he returned to the penitentiary ..., the appellant ... received ... credits ... for thirteen months for a total of one hundred fifty-six (156) additional days of PPSC. These days ... yielded a credit of four hundred sixteen (416) days which are subtracted from the January 3, 1985 expiration date ... and ... yielded an expiration date of November 15, 1983.... ⅜ ⅜ ¾: * * * Thus, the net result of all these calculations is that at the time that Governor Alexander signed the revocation of clemency on November 22, 1983, the appellant’s sentence had already expired. There was simply no sentence to revoke.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carroll v. Raney“I, Lamar Alexander, Governor, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by Article III of the Constitution of the State of Tennessee do hereby commute the sentence of Jerry Thomas Ricks, # 62482, of a total of eighty-five (85) years for first degree murder and two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon, to forty (40) years, effective Januaiy 21, 1982. This commutation is granted with the conditions hereinafter set forth: Mr. Ricks will remain in the custody of the Department of Correction until such time as he is approved for parole, and must abide by the rules and regulations of the Department. Upon release, he will be under parole and/or commutation supervision by the Board of Paroles until the expiration of his original sentence. Commutation supervision shall consist of supervision similar to the rules, regulation and guidelines established by the Board of Paroles for the supervision of parolees (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ricks v. State“upon such conditions and with such restrictions and limitations as he may deem proper....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ricks 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.