United States v. Holman’s Empirical Analysis
728 F.2d 809 · 1984
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably United States v. Latroy D. Ray, Johnny Lee May, and Boyd McChristion (1987), United States v. Edgecomb (1990)
43 federal appellate · 19 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. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002)
Relies on Santobello v. New York · United States v. DiFrancesco · Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. Federal Maritime Commission · Lewis v. United States · Wilson v. Omaha Indian Tribe
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a promise by the prosecutor induces a defendant to plead guilty that promise must be fulfilled.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court may accept or reject the agreement, or may defer its decision as to the acceptance or rejection until there has been an opportunity to consider the presentence report.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the court [were] free to accept or reject at any time there would be no need to include deferral as an option.”
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.