Mooney v. Holohan’s Empirical Analysis
294 U.S. 103 · 1935
Citation profile
1,239 federal appellate · 222 district · 1,040 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,688 later decisions (221 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Brady v. State of Maryland (1963), Johnson v. Zerbst (1938)
1,239 federal appellate · 222 district · 1,040 state decisions — followed in 50 states
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 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Chicago Co v. City of Chicago · Frank v. Mangum · Moore v. Dempsey · Hebert v. State of Louisiana
Cited together with Brady v. State of Maryland · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Giglio v. United States · Pyle v. State of Kansas · United States v. Agurs
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 3,688 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fundamental conceptions of justice which lie at the base of our civil and political institutions,”
72 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“on the ground that [the petitioner] is in custody in violation of the Constitution ... of the United States.” 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (a) (emphasis added). 32 . Brady relied on earlier Supreme Court cases holding”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the sole basis of his conviction was perjured testimony, which was knowingly used by the prosecuting authorities in order to obtain that conviction, and also that these authorities deliberately suppressed evidence which would have impeached and refuted the testimony thus given against him.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.