Holladay v. Allen

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• criticizing the state’s expert for her “predominant focus on [the offender’s] actions surrounding the crime,” which “suggest[ed] that she did not recognize [that people with mental retardation have strengths as well as weaknesses]”
• “[A]ll of the scores were on WAIS tests, which may have reflected elevated scores because of the Flynn effect.”
• “Individuals with mental retardation have strengths and weaknesses, like all individuals. Indeed, the criteria for diagnosis recognizes this by requiring a showing of deficits in only two of ten identified areas [in the DSM-IV-TR] of adaptive functioning.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

39 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ledford v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Prison
  Eleventh Circuit· 2016-03-21· cited 277×
• Warren Lee Hill, Jr. v. Carl Humphrey
  Eleventh Circuit· 2011-11-22· cited 208×
• Florida International University Board of Trustees v. Florida National University, Inc.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2016-07-26· cited 145×
• David Keen v. State of Tennessee
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2012-12-20· cited 81×
• Coleman v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2011-04-11· cited 80×
• Albarran v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2011-07-29· cited 50×
• Thomas v. Allen
  Eleventh Circuit· 2010-05-27· cited 48×
• Elroy Chester v. Rick Thaler, Director
  Fifth Circuit· 2012-01-03· cited 38×
• Joseph Clifton Smith v. Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2023-05-19· cited 38×
• Cathey, Eric Dewayne
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-11-05· cited 34×
• Morris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2010-02-05· cited 33×
• John Wayne Conner v. GDCP Warden
  Eleventh Circuit· 2015-04-15· cited 32×
• United States v. Hardy
  E.D. Louisiana· 2010-11-24· cited 31×
• Kenneth Earl Fults v. GDCP Warden
  Eleventh Circuit· 2014-08-26· cited 30×
• American Civil Rights Union v. Brenda Snipes
  Eleventh Circuit· 2019-08-22· cited 30×
• United States v. Davis
  D. Maryland· 2009-04-24· cited 25×
• Thomas v. Allen
  N.D. Alabama· 2009-04-21· cited 25×
• State v. Dunn
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2010-05-11· cited 25×
• Willie B. Smith, III v. Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2019-05-22· cited 25×
• Smith v. Schriro
  Ninth Circuit· 2016-02-04· cited 19×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Anderson v. City of Bessemer City
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-19· cited 11,658×
• Atkins v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-20· cited 3,384×
• Holladay v. Haley
  Eleventh Circuit· 2000-04-19· cited 371×
• Shernika Holton v. City of Thomasville School
  Eleventh Circuit· 2005-09-23· cited 145×
• Holladay v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1988-09-20· cited 139×
• Ex Parte Perkins
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2002-11-22· cited 137×
• In re Holladay
  Eleventh Circuit· 2003-05-26· cited 123×
• Ex Parte Holladay
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1989-05-05· cited 119×
• Rivera v. Quarterman
  Fifth Circuit· 2007-10-22· cited 99×
• In re Gabriel International, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1989-12-11· cited 99×
• Holladay v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1992-12-30· cited 78×
• Ex parte State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2007-05-25· cited 34×
• Curtis Osborne v. William Terry
  Eleventh Circuit· 2006-10-16· cited 24×
• Holloday v. Campbell
  N.D. Alabama· 2006-10-12· cited 10×
• Holladay v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1994-02-28· cited 4×