43 Ala. App. 509 - Holman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2005
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 40 Ala. App. 587 - Fiorella v. State · 40 Ala. App. 551 - Sparks v. State · Southern Railway Co. v. McCants · Montgomery v. State · 31 Ala. App. 264 - Summers 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Punishment by imprisonment in county jail or at hard labor for county; sentence suspended or remitted. — When the court imposes additional punishment where a fine had been assessed by a jury, or in any case where the court is authorized to impose such punishment at imprisonment in the county jail or at hard labor for the county, the court may, in its discretion, suspend the execution of such sentence until a subsequent time to be then fixed by the court, and not to exceed six months, and may then order it to be executed or remit the same, or further suspend the execution of the sentence."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“authorize the courts having criminal jurisdiction to suspend sentence and to order probation.”
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.