Holt v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2017
1 federal appellate · 16 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. § 5010 · 18 U.S.C. § 875 · 42 U.S.C. § 3701
Relies on Solem v. Helm · United States v. Batchelder · United States v. Batchelder · Peoples Drug Stores, Inc. v. District of Columbia · Applestein v. Mayor of Baltimore
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever, with intent to extort from any person, firm, association, or corporation, any money or other thing of value, transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of. another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The fact that [the felony threats statute] was enacted and codified in tandem with an extortion provision does not establish that the two statutes address the same subject matter.... We conclude that we need not construe the two statutes together in order to divine the meaning of the felony threats statute, [§ 1502],”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Whoever threatens within the District of Columbia to kidnap any person or to injure the person of another or physically damage the property of any person or of another person, in whole or in part, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.