Holman v. Cayce’s Empirical Analysis
873 F.2d 944 · 1989
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2018
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Roviaro v. United States · Bibby v. United States · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · Hanrahan v. Hampton · Hampton v. Hanrahan
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In balancing those competing interests in the context of a criminal case, courts must consider 'the crime charged, the possible defenses, the possible significance of the informer's testimony, and other relevant factors.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen the informant has not been 'an active participant in the events underlying the defendant's potential criminal liability,' the balance weighs heavily toward nondisclosure.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'balanc[e] the public interest in protecting the flow of information against the individual's right to prepare a defense.'”
2 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.