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← 522 So. 2d 348 - Holsworth v. State

522 So. 2d 348 - Holsworth v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

28
cited by 28 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Trotter v. State (1990), Johnson v. Singletary (1991)

2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions

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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 Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Manson v. Brathwaite · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · Scharffe v. Perkins

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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A jury's advisory opinion is entitled to great weight, reflecting as it does the conscience of the community... .”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 604 So. 2d 799 - Marshall v. State · 552 So. 2d 1082 - Stevens v. State
  2. “whether the general state of mind of the inhabitants of a community is so infected by knowledge of the incident and accompanying prejudice, bias, and preconceived opinions that jurors could not possibly put these matters out of their minds and try the case solely on the evidence presented in the courtroom.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 586 So. 2d 371 - Noe v. State
  3. “evidence concerning drugs and alcohol, in conjunction with the testimony of numerous witnesses that Holsworth was generally a quiet, nonviolent person, was sufficient for the jury to reasonably have concluded that he may have been high on PCP and alcohol at the time of the murder”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Caruso 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.