Holly v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
434 F.3d 287 · 2006
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Philips v. Pitt County Memorial Hospital (2009), Alba v. Montford (2008)
14 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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. § 4013 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Estelle v. Gamble · Bell v. Hood · Butz v. Economou
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“delegate its authority [to private entities] to incarcerate, to confine, to discipline, to feed, and to provide medical and other care to inmates who are imprisoned by order of the federal government.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Under th[e state-action or color-of-law] doctrine, we “insist [ ]” as a prerequisite to liability “that the conduct allegedly causing the deprivation of a federal right be fairly attributable to the State.” By doing so, we maintain the Bill of Rights as a shield that protects private citizens from the excesses of government, rather than a sword that they may use to impose liability upon one another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here exists ample reason to be even more cautious about imputing liability to private actors under Bivens”
1 later decision 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.