Hollars v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Beard v. State (1975), Johnson v. State (1985)
95 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 Schmerber v. State of California · Gilbert v. California · Weems v. United States · Badders v. United States · Tyler 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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'It is only where a criminal penalty is not graduated and proportioned to the nature of an offense, or where it is grossly and unquestionably excessive that this provision of the Constitution is intended to apply.'”
13 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State · Belcher v. State““The 5th Amendment privilege against self incrimination has been held to reach only compulsion of the accused’s communications and responses which are also communications, that is evidence in the form of testimony or that which is testimonial in character. It does not shield against compulsory submission to tests that are merely physical or produce evidence that is only physical in nature, such as fingerprints, measurements, voice or handwriting exemplars, or physical characteristics or abilities.” (Citations omitted) 286 N.E.2d at 168 .”
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.