Holmes v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

cited by 24 later decisions

states following

August 2016

most recently cited

24 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2016

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 381 So. 2d 983 - Jones v. State · Scott v. Florida · 380 So. 2d 1276 - Gathright v. State · 478 So. 2d 1017 - Harper v. State · 419 So. 2d 1324 - Pate 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.

“[t]he granting of a cautionary instruction regarding the testimony of an accomplice is discretionary with the trial judge.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Brewer v. State · Derden v. State
“L.C. Holmes however submitted a proper alibi instruction, which read: Instruction No. 4290-D-1. Alibi means elsewhere or in another place. In this case, the defendant, L.C. Holmes, Jr. is asserting the defense of alibi by saying that he was at home on Lewis Street in Marks, Mississippi, at the time when the state claims that he was somewhere else committing the crime of burglary. Alibi is a legal and proper defense in law. The defendant is not required to establish the truth of his alibi to your satisfaction, but, if the evidence or lack of evidence in this case raises in the minds of the jury a reasonable doubt as to whether the defendant was present and committed the crime, then you must give him the benefit of the doubt and acquit him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Tucker v. State · 645 So. 2d 921 - Jackson v. State
“the trial judge must accede to the accused's request and grant a cautionary instruction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
e.g. Williams v. State · 498 So. 2d 1224 - Van Buren v. State

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.