Commonwealth v. Holmgren’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Goodwin (2010), Commonwealth v. Wilcox (2006)
66 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3565
Relies on Ashe v. Swenson · Dowling v. United States · Department of Revenue of Mont. v. Kurth Ranch · United States v. One Assortment of 89 Firearms · One Lot Emerald Cut Stones One Ring v. United States
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“since only reasonably satisfactory evidence is required for a probation violation, a defendant’s probation may be revoked 'based on an offense of which the defendant has been acquitted after a criminal trial.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Tetreault“when probation is revoked, the original suspended sentence must be imposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the sentence shall be in full force and effect”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.