State v. Holme’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently November 1966 · most notably State v. Larkin (1913), State v. Ellis (1881)
1 federal appellate · 47 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.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No error that is not a violation of some positive rule of law, or which may not possibly prejudice the defendant, can be a ground for reversal on appeal; but it is with great, hesitancy that the courts will say, in a criminal case, that an error does not prejudice the defendant. In the present case a positive rule of law is violated, and the statute which declares that certain persons shall be selected to try the •cause is set at naught, and other persons substituted in their place. And this is done against the objections of the •defendant, made at the time. In this action we think the •court committed a substantial error.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Waters
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.