Holmes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2014
12 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 McCollum v. State · Parrish v. State · Ferrell v. State · Bewley v. State · Erby v. Indiana
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is within the discretion of the trial court and will not be set aside unless it is manifestly unreasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reynolds v. State“It is well settled that a trial court may not treat an element of the offense as an aggravating factor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Watson 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.