McElroy, Warden v. Holloway’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
324
cited by 324 later decisions
7
cited 7 times by the Supreme Court
10
states following
January 1998
most recently cited
146 federal appellate · 3 district · 76 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mullaney v. Wilbur · Patterson v. New York · Leland v. Oregon · Rivera v. Delaware
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 324 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] person commits the offense of murder when he unlawfully and with malice aforethought, either express or implied, causes the death of another human being.”
2 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.