Holmes v. Morales’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Commissioners Court of Titus County v. Agan (1997), City of Garland v. Dallas Morning News (2000)
2 federal appellate · 87 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin))
Relationships
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Miller v. Gentry · Simmons v. Arnim · Jones v. Strauss · RepublicBank Dallas, N.A. v. Interkal, Inc. · Etheridge v. State
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An internal record or notation of a law enforcement agency or prosecutor that is maintained for internal use in matters relating to law enforcement or prosecution is excepted from the requirements of [disclosure] if ... release of the internal record or notation would interfere with law enforcement or prosecution[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“collected, assembled, or maintained by a governmental body.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.