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).