Commonwealth v. Holcomb’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 135 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2014 · most notably Blystone v. Pennsylvania (1990), Commonwealth v. Abu-Jamal (1989)
2 federal appellate · 135 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Escobedo v. Illinois · Gregg v. Georgia · Witherspoon v. Illinois
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Normally, one who claims that he has been denied a fair trial because of prejudicial pre-trial publicity must show actual prejudice in the empaneling of the jury---But this rule is subject to an important exception. In certain eases there ‘can be pre-trial publicity so sustained, so pervasive, so inflammatory, and so inculpatory as to demand a change of venue without putting the defendant to any burden of establishing a nexus between the publicity and actual jury prejudice,’ ... because the circumstances make it apparent that there is a substantial likelihood that a fair trial cannot be had.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Miranda warnings are necessary only on those occasions when a suspect is undergoing actual `custodial interrogation.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The court may allow an information to be amended when there is a defect in form, the description of the offense, the description of any person or any property, or the date charged, provided the information as amended does not charge an additional or different offense. Upon amendment the court may grant such postponement of trial or other relief as is necessary in the interests of justice.”
2 later decisions 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.