State v. . Holly’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1975
1 federal appellate · 16 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.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“but cannot, by cross-examination or otherwise, offer evidence as to particular acts of misconduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“That the evidence was prejudicial cannot be doubted. The prisoner was charged with murdering, by poison, a member of his household, and the evidence was circumstantial. It was calculated to excite feeling against him in the minds of the most intelligent and upright jurors to know that he had been charged with killing his wife.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Burney
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.