State v. Boyea’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 38 Cal. 4th 1078 - People v. Wells (2006), Jackson v. Commonwealth (2004)
4 federal appellate · 61 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Alabama v. White · Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton · Florida v. JL · 196 W. Va. 588 - Muscatell v. Cline · 192 W. Va. 428 - State v. Stuart
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is not our job to supplement the record. . . .This constraint is inherent in the nature of an appellate court; we must bow to the controlling force of the record and consider only those facts that were established below.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Brillon
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.