Stephens v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 state decisions

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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[i]f a person incarcerated awaiting trial on more than one charge is sentenced to concurrent terms for the separate crimes, he or she is entitled to receive credit time applied against each separate term. However, if the defendant receives consecutive terms, he or she is only-allowed credit time against the total or aggregate of the terms.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jones v. State · Jacob Maciaszek v. State of Indiana

2. “The search must be conducted pursuant to standard police procedures, as evidenced by the cir cumstances surrounding the search.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Edwards v. State · Faust v. State

3. “In determining the propriety of an inventory search, 'the threshold question ... is whether the impoundment itself was proper.?”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lewis v. State