Holland v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
4,891 federal appellate · 128 district · 994 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8,045 later decisions (50 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Jackson v. Virginia (1979), In the Matter of Samuel Winship (1970)
4,891 federal appellate · 128 district · 994 state decisions — followed in 45 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 Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · McNabb v. United States · Spies v. United States · Remmer v. United States
Cited together with Glasser v. United States · Smith v. United States · Spies v. United States · United States v. Calderon · United States v. Johnson
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 8,045 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“involves a specific intent which must be proven by independent evidence and which cannot be inferred from the mere understatement of income.”
187 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Circumstantial evidence in this respect is intrinsically no different from testimonial evidence. Admittedly, circumstantial evidence may in some cases point to a wholly incorrect result. Yet this is equally true of testimonial evidence. In both instances, a jury is asked to weigh the chances that the evidence correctly points to guilt against the possibility of inaccuracy or ambiguous inference. In both, the jury must use its experience with people and events in weighing the probabilities. If the jury is convinced beyond a reasonable doubt, we can require no more.”
121 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“taken as a whole, the instructions [must] correctly conve[y] the concept of reasonable doubt to the jury.”
62 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.