537 So. 2d 882 - Holmes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2011
14 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 Chapman v. State of California · Brown v. State · 287 So. 2d 759 - Herron v. State · Myrick v. State · 391 So. 2d 1000 - Carrol 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he general principle is that `the failure of either party to examine a witness equally accessible to both is not a proper subject of comment before the jury by either of the parties.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Burke v. State · Foley v. State“No judgment shall be reversed on the ground of misdirection to the jury, or the improper admission or exclusion of evidence, or for error as to the matter of pleading or procedure, unless it shall affirmatively appear, from the whole record, that such judgment has resulted in a miscarriage of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lacy v. State“[a]pplying the holding in Madlock to the facts in this case, the Court points out that Mr. Cox [the prosecutor] blatantly commented on the failure of the defense to call Mr. Mason. This Court submits that these actions amount to prejudicial error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fox 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.