Holliday v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1994
8 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 Griffith v. State · Montgomery v. State · 52 Ala. App. 204 - Loggins v. State · Allison v. State · 23 Ala. App. 162 - Gilbreath 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The principle that permits evidence touching on the reputation of the victim of a homicide in a case where there is evidence of self-defense has not been extended to `general reputation' but is limited to reputation as to particular traits variously denominated as traits of `violence,' `turbulence,' `blood-thirstiness' and the like."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Appellant’s complaint as to a portion of the court’s charge on the subject of reasonable doubt comes too late. Oral instructions, to which no objection is made or exception taken, cannot be reviewed on appeal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Woods v. State“is not entitled to prove the victim's bad general reputation as a whole. . . . He can only prove the victim's bad reputation for violence or some similar trait.”
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.