Boyd v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 1998
4 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
Relies on Tumey v. State of Ohio · Pennsylvania State Board of Pharmacy v. Cohen · A. P. Weaver & Sons v. Sanitary Water Board · Pennsylvania State Board of Pharmacy v. Pastor · Sharp's Convalescent Home v. Department of Public Welfare
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The State Board of Osteopathic Examiners may refuse, revoke, or suspend the right to practice osteopathy and surgery in this State upon any or all of the following reasons, to wit: The conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude ... unethical conduct....”
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.