Boles v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably 255 So. 2d 675 - Chesebrough v. State (1971), 111 So. 2d 665 - Adams v. Culver (1959)
42 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 Myers v. State · Fields v. State · Starke v. State
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“wicked, lustful, unchaste, licentious, or sensual design on the part of the perpetrator.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“there must be a definite showing of a lewd or lascivious interest,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... she was his little sweetie, as if she were his daughter.”
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.