United States v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
256 F.3d 959 · 2001
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2023
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Oklahoma Eastern District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · United States v. Feola · United States v. Murphy · United States v. Heliczer · United States v. Reid
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever kills or attempts to kill any officer or employee of the United States or of any agency in any branch of the United States Government (including any member of the uniformed services) while such officer or employee is engaged in or on account of the performance of official duties, or any person assisting such an officer or employee in the performance of such duties or on account of that assistance, shall be punished ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[Alssist' means 'to give support or aid'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Allen
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.