Holloway v. McElroy’s Empirical Analysis
632 F.2d 605 · 1980
Citation profile
84 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016 · most notably Engle v. Isaac (1982), United States v. Tresvant (1982)
84 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Chapman v. State of California · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Wainwright v. Sykes · Burks 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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(I)f neither the state legislature nor the state courts indicate that a federal constitutional claim is barred by some state procedural rule, a federal court implies no disrespect for the State by entertaining the claim.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(a) 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. (b) Express malice is that deliberate intention unlawfully to take the life of another human being which is manifested by external circumstances capable of proof. Malice shall be implied where no considerable provocation appears and where all the circumstances of the killing show an abandoned and malignant heart.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he state may not place the burden of persuasion on [an] issue upon the defendant if the truth of the `defense' would necessarily negate an essential element of the crime charged.”
3 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.