Holder v. Welborn’s Empirical Analysis
60 F.3d 383 · 1995
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2024
11 federal appellate · 4 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) · 28 U.S.C. § 455
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Swain v. State of Alabama · Hernandez v. New York · Griffith v. Kentucky · Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]ince [the magistrate, the judge,] and the members of this panel all have basically been provided with only a cold record from which to determine if a Batson violation occurred at Holder's jury trial, we find that no deference is warranted under these circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) that he [or she] was a member of a cognizable racial group; (2) that the prosecutor exercised peremptory challenges to remove persons of the defendant’s race from the venire; and (3) that there were sufficient facts and circumstances to raise an inference that the prosecution utilized the peremptories to exclude members from the venire on the basis of race.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Morse v. Hanks“the trial court generally conducts the Batson inquiry contemporaneously with the voir dire procedure, and therefore is in the best position to witness the statements of the challenged jurors and to assess the credibility of the prosecutors as they seek to justify the exercise of a peremptory challenge”
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.