State v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably 278 So. 2d 485 - State v. Douglas (1973), 304 So. 2d 300 - State v. Kaufman (1974)
27 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 State v. Hudson · State v. Gatlin · State v. Leming · State v. Douglas · State v. Broussard
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is designed primarily to provide the flow of information needed by the office of the district attorney in cases of apparent homicide . . . Non-compliance with its provisions has no bearing upon the requirements of due process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A coroner's report ... shall be competent evidence of death and the cause thereof, but not of any other fact. (emphasis added).”
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.