480 So. 2d 94 - State v. Holley’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2017
10 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 436 So. 2d 93 - Combs v. State · 412 So. 2d 461 - Swartz v. Swartz · 477 So. 2d 985 - The Florida Bar Re: Standard Jury Instructions Criminal Cases · Ivester v. State · 424 So. 2d 101 - Allen 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hile a defendant cannot use force to resist an arrest, he may resist the use of excessive force in making the arrest.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`permit[s] an individual to defend himself against unlawful or excessive force, even when being arrested.'”
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.