State v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2012
22 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 Payton v. New York · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · United States v. Alaska · MacArthur Co. v. Johns-Manville Corp.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[H]ere, the trial judge erred in not admitting the impeachment evidence but we find the error was harmless. McCraw’s testimony was not that important to the State’s case. Much of McCraw’s testimony was merely cumulative to Anderson’s testimony and corroborated by other evidence. The majority of McCraw’s testimony was about the phone records of appellant, appellant’s father, Vickie’s father, Anderson, Anderson’s employer (Smuggler’s), and several pay phones, and appellant’s bank records. McCraw also testified as to Anderson’s statement and how he had investigated the information contained in the statement. Appellant was permitted to extensively cross-examine McCraw. Lastly, the State’s case was fairly strong. Anderson’s testimony and the evidence of flight were very damning. After considering the Van Arsdall factors in light of the evidence against appellant, we hold the exclusion of this impeachment evidence was harmless.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McLeod“the importance of the witness'[s] testimony to the prosecution's case, whether the testimony was cumulative, whether other evidence corroborates or contradicts the witness'[s] testimony, the extent of the cross-examination otherwise permitted, and the overall strength of the State's case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Joseph
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.