People v. Fitzgerald’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2021
15 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Schubert v. People · White v. Denver District Court, Division 12 · Massey v. People · People v. Valdez · People v. Hickey
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A 'substantial nexus' in that context means that the defendant would have remained confined in the same judicial district on the charge for which credit is sought in the absence of any other charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Roy“confinement necessarily [was] attributable to the sentence imposed”
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.