State v. Boston’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2022
21 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 Shaffer v. Honeywell, Inc. · State v. Goodroad · State v. Rufener · State v. Frazier · State v. Oster
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. Whether the trial court abused its discretion in admitting other acts evidence. 2. Whether the trial court erred in denying the suppression of Owen’s statements to law enforcement. 3. Whether the trial court erred by denying Owen’s requested self-defense instruction. 4. Whether there was sufficient evidence to prove first degree murder. 5. Whether the State had jurisdiction over Owen’s crimes. 6. Whether there was a Batson violation in the State’s exercise of its peremptory challenges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Owen“whether there is sufficient evidence in the record which, if believed by the jury, is sufficient to sustain a finding of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt; in making this determination, the Court will accept the evidence, and the most favorable inference fairly drawn therefrom, which will support the verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mesa
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.