Holmes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Hoile v. State (2008), State v. Wilkins (2006)
46 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 Walczak v. State · People v. Ledford · Matthews v. State · Bailey v. State · 214 N.J. Super. 324 - State v. Nemeth
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he instant case leads me to the conclusion that a period of probation is an implied term of appellant’s plea agreement to a split sentence of life imprisonment suspend all but thirty-five years. Such conclusion is reinforced by the fact that, without a period of probation as an implied term, the plea agreement would be for an illegal sentence, and “[a] defendant cannot consent to an illegal sentence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Crawley
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.