Gaither v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
October 2013
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Vandygriff v. Phillips · Rogers v. United States · Wellman v. Commonwealth · Thompson v. Commonwealth · Devore v. Commonwealth
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Notwithstanding any provision in this section to the contrary, if a person is convicted of an offense that is committed while he is imprisoned in a penal or reformatory institution ... the sentence imposed for that offense may be added to the portion of the term which remained unserved at the time of the commission of the offense. The sentence imposed upon any person convicted of an escape or attempted escape offense shall run consecutively with any other sentence which the defendant must serve. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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