State v. Holman’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Quinn (1978), State v. Sherrill (1983)
30 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 Miller v. Rhay · State v. Franco · State v. Spica · State v. Meiers · State v. Johnson
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I got your scribes in the mail today. And was glad to hear that this statement down here that the D.A. is got is a false one.... I never thought that you were gonna come back to testify against me anyway. You see, when I went to try to get this dam gun and mask that they’ve got suppress, [the prosecutor] told the judge that you were coming back to testify to the fact that you over heard me braging about how I had shot the old man and how I was gonna get away with it, and then I said to myself, T know that that’s a dam lie!’ because I knew right then that you had told me once before that you wasn’t a ‘snitch’ but [the prosecutor] went ahead and endorsed you as a witness anyway ...” (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dixon 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.