United States v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
680 F.2d 1372 · 1982
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2006 · most notably United States v. Sharpe (1985), Ortega-Rodriguez v. United States (1993)
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 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. § 1291
Relies on Abney v. United States · Molinaro v. New Jersey · Estelle v. Dorrough · United States v. Shelton
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No persuasive reason exists why this Court should proceed to adjudicate the merits of a criminal case after the convicted defendant who has sought review escapes from the restraints placed upon him pursuant to the conviction. While such an escape does not strip the case of its character as an adjudicable case or controversy, we believe it disentitles the defendant to call upon the resources of the Court for determination of his claims.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“because each involved a defendant who fled after filing a notice of appeal.”
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.