Holderfield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2017
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.
Relationships
Relies on Brumfield v. State · Francis v. White · Butler v. State · Clanton v. State · Yates v. State
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is not a part of the corpus delicti to show that the appellant did the breaking, but it was the criminal breaking without the consent of the owner ... that constituted the corpus delicti.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“two essential elements, viz: (1) The burglarious breaking and entering of the house, and (2) the felonious intent to commit some crime therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sandefer v. State“[t]he fact that one who enters with the consent of the owner commits a larceny after the entry does not make him guilty of a burglary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sandefer v. State
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.