Boyd v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
142 U.S. 450 · 1892
Citation profile
362 federal appellate · 17 district · 152 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 595 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2020 · most notably Burgett v. Texas (1967), Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell (1967)
362 federal appellate · 17 district · 152 state decisions — followed in 32 states
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 Ex parte Garland · United States v. George Wilson · Ex Parte: in the Matter of William Wells on a Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus
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 595 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(p)roof of (other crimes) only tend(s) to prejudice the defendants with the jurors, to draw their minds away from the real issue, and to produce the impression that they were wretches whose lives were of no value to the community . . . .”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"If the evidence as to crimes committed by the defendants, other than the murder of Dansby, had been limited to the robberies of Rigsby and Taylor, it may be, in view of the peculiar circumstances disclosed by the record, and the specific directions by the court as to the purpose for which the proof of those two robberies might be considered, that the judgment would not be disturbed, although that proof, in the multiplied details of the facts connected with the Rigsby and Taylor robberies, went beyond the objects for which it was allowed by the court. . ." 142 U.S. at 457-58 , 12 S.Ct. at 295 , 35 L.Ed. at 1080 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the disability to testify being a consequence ... of the judgment of conviction, the pardon obliterated that effect.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Abrams · In Re Abrams
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.