Holladay v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
555 F.3d 1346 · 2009
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Hill v. Humphrey (2011), Thomas v. Allen (2010)
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Atkins v. Virginia · Holladay v. Haley · 549 So. 2d 122 - Holladay v. State · Putman v. Zant
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where there are two permissible views of the evidence, the factfinder's choice between them cannot be clearly erroneous.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walker v. Kelly · Eggers v. Alabama“A diagnosis of borderline intellectual functioning will not qualify for exemption from the death penalty.” Holladay v. Allen, 555 F.3d 1346, 1353 (11th Cir.2009) (citation omitted). .The DSM-5 also lists BIF as a”
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.