Boyette v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently December 1987 · most notably 31 Ala. App. 77 - Kabase v. State (1943), Barbour v. State (1954)
74 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 Rollings v. State · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Pearson · White v. State · Alabama Great Southern R. Co. v. Bell · Crenshaw 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The trial court should not have permitted the introduction of the clothing of the deceased, as it shed no light whatever upon any material inquiry in the case, and was but the presentation of an unsightly spectacle calculated to prejudice the jury [italics ours].” Boyette v. State, 215 Ala. 472 , 110 So. 812 , and authorities therein cited.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The defendant did not put his general character in issue, and the state had no right to do so except so far as it may have affected his credibility as a witness, and the trial court erred in not limiting the character evidence to this purpose over the repeated objections and requests of the defendant.”
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.