People v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably People v. Baer (1999), Lobato v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office (2005)
41 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 Grayned v. City of Rockford · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Cheek v. United States · Colten v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally speaking, where the law imposes criminal liability for certain conduct, the scienter element requires no more than that the person charged with the duty knows what he is doing. It does not mean that, in addition, he must suppose that he is breaking the law.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Rester · Oram v. People“[t]he General Assembly does not improperly delegate its legislative power ‘when it describes what job must be done, who must do it, and the scope of his authority.’”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Based on the notion that the law is definite and knowable, the common law presumed that every person knew the law.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.