Holley v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably 280 So. 2d 431 - Hoffman v. Jones (1973), Morial v. Judiciary Commission of Louisiana (1977)
1 federal appellate · 61 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 594
Relies on Powell v. McCormack · United Public Workers of America v. Mitchell · Amos v. Mathews · Burroughs Knight v. Lyles, Co. Chm. · Jackson Lumber Co. v. Walton County
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[It] does not prescribe additional qualifications for the office, as the candidate may well be qualified in a legal sense to hold either. The law is simply a limitation upon the right to retain the office already held when seeking another. It is not a limitation upon the right to seek another office, for the incumbent of an office has the choice under the statute to retain it unmolested or give it up and seek another.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“... every reasonable doubt must be indulged in favor of the act, the constitutionality of which is questioned,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The judiciary will not nullify legislative acts merely on grounds of the policy and wisdom of such act, no matter how unwise or unpolitic they might be, so long as there is no plain violation of the Constitution. [Cases cited.]"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.