Gethers v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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114 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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A]bsent the execution of an arrest warrant, a defendant who is in jail in a specific county pursuant to an arrest on one or more charges need not be given credit for time served in that county on charges in another county when the second county has only lodged a detainer against the defendant.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 967 So. 2d 928 - Cooper v. State · 912 So. 2d 326 - May v. State

2. “A detainer is a request filed by a criminal justice agency with the institution in which a prisoner is incarcerated, asking the institution either to hold the prisoner for the agency or to notify the agency when release of the prisoner is imminent.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 927 So. 2d 1052 - Trout v. State · 910 So. 2d 940 - Chapman v. State

3. “Only if the prisoner is subject to release but is being held because a detainer has been lodged can it be said that the prisoner is in custody pursuant to the detainer.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 884 So. 2d 1072 - Bonilla v. State · 884 So. 2d 316 - Smith v. State