497 So. 2d 1149 - Holmes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2001
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 Ake v. Oklahoma · United States v. Simmons · 392 So. 2d 1274 - Watson v. State · Dunn v. State · 414 So. 2d 993 - Ex Parte Allen
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.
“"The indictment in this case clearly apprises the appellant of the nature of the accusation against him. The fact that the date and time of the offense are not alleged does not make this indictment void. It is unnecessary to allege the date and time of an offense unless the date and time are material ingredients of an offense. Carroll v. State , 440 So.2d 1168 (Ala.Crim.App.), cert. denied, 440 So.2d 1168 (Ala. 1983); Kelley v. State , 409 So.2d 909 (Ala.Crim.App. 1981), cert. denied, 409 So.2d 909 (Ala. 1982). "Such is not the case here. The indictment was sufficient in law in this instance."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is within the sound discretion of the trial judge to deny a motion for continuance for the purpose of obtaining further study and evaluation of a defendant. . . . There is no obligation of the trial court to grant a continuance for the purpose of preparing an insanity defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“determination of whether a reasonable doubt of sanity exists is a matter within the sound discretion of the trial court.”
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.