Holmes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Miller v. State (1980), Chaviers v. State (1979)
24 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 Chimel v. California · Gammel v. State · Jones v. State · Reed v. United States · Perez 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) A person commits the offense of public intoxication if he appears in a public place manifestly under the influence of alcohol ... to the degree and under circumstances such that he is likely to endanger himself or other persons or property, or that he unreasonably annoys persons in his vicinity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Heslip v. Lobbs“need not be tantamount to that degree of proof sufficient to sustain a conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGuire 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.