Boyd v. State of Nebraska Thayer’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2021 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), De Lima v. Bidwell (1901)
2 federal appellate · 16 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 19 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 United States v. Cruikshank · Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live · The American Insurance Company v. 356 Bales of Cotton David Canter · Minor v. Happersett · Collector v. Day
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statutory provisions leave much to be desired, and the attention of congress has been called to the condition of the laws in reference to election of nationality, and to the desirability of a clear definition of the status of minor children of fathers who had declared their intention to become citizens, but had failed to'perfect their naturalization, and of the status gained by those of full age by the declaration of intention. 2 Whart. Xnt. Dig. 340, 341, 350. Clearly, minors acquire an inchoate status by declaration of intention on the part of their parents.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Di Simone““By the annexation of Texas, under a joint resolution of congress of March 1,1845, and its admission into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, December 29, 1845, all the citizens of the former republic became, without any express declaration, citizens of the United States. 5 Stat. 798 ; 9 Stat. 108 ; McKinney v. Saviego, 18 How. 235 ; Cryer v. Andrews, 11 Tex. 170 ; Barrett v. Kelly, 31 Tex. 476 ; Carter v. New Mexico, 1 N. M. 317 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Rodriguez““Admission on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever, involves equality of constituíional right and power, which cannot thereafterwnrds be controlled, and it also involves the adoption as citizens of the United Stales of those whom Congress makes members of the political community, and who are recognized as such in the formation of the new state With the consent of Congress.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.