Crow v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Under the judgment of conviction statute, the trial court is charged with responsibility for determining whether the defendant is entitled to good time credit. Whether a defendant has earned good time credit at the local level is subject to the sound discretion of the trial court. But the trial court does not have discretion whether or not to make that determination at the time of sentencing.... We therefore hold that the trial court imposed an erroneous sentence when it imposed sentence without giving good time credit ... earned while in jail awaiting sentence under Ind.Code Section 35-50-6-8(a).”

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

2. “the amount of credit earned for time spent in confinement before sentencing. This determination serves to memorialize any modifications in credit time class or credit time imposed by local prison authorities upon a person confined before trial and sentencing. A trial court's sentencing judgment thus does not merely”

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

3. “[when a convicted person is sentenced to imprisonment, the court shall, without delay, certify, under the seal of the court, copies of the judgment of conviction and sentence to the receiving authority,”

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