Weaver v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lockhart v. State · Simms v. State · Hough v. State · Devaney v. State · Nutt v. State
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Good time credit under [ Section 35-50-6-3 ] is a 'matter of statutory right, not a matter of judicial discretion.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] person assigned to Class I earns one (1) day of credit time for each day he is imprisoned for a crime or confined awaiting trial or sentencing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. House v. State · Williams v. State“credit time statutes, as remedial legislation, should be liberally construed in favor of 'those benefited by the statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. House v. State · Williams 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.