Commonwealth v. Barton’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
2 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 10 Mass. App. Ct. 618 - Commonwealth v. Carter · Commonwealth v. Milton · Kinney · Needel · Libby v. Commissioner of Correction
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.
“entitled to credit for time spent confined to jail before sentencing so long as that confinement is related to the criminal episode for which the prisoner is then sentenced”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“multiple concurrent sentences are ordered on different dates, on account of different criminal offenses, ... although the later imposed sentences are ordered to be served concurrently with the first sentence imposed,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]ny sentence being served concurrently with a sentence to which a jail credit is applied should receive the benefit of the same credit so that the sentence in fact retains a concurrent status.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.