Crowden v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
734 F.2d 641 · 1984
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2008
7 federal appellate · 4 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 Dann v. Johnston · Barrett v. United States · Hernandez v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas · Dimmick v. Tompkins · J. Loyd Parker, Jr. v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of Corrections
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no distinction in principle between a denial of credit for time spent in presentencing custody that results in the detention of indigents longer than the maximum period which can be imposed by law and a similar denial when the detention occurs after sentencing, pending appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Palmer v. Dugger“The equal protection clause does not allow a state to extend a prisoner's sentence beyond the maximum period prescribed by law by refusing to give the prisoner credit for presentencing detention occasioned by the prisoner's financial inability to make bail.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Palmer v. Dugger
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.