State v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably State v. Fernandez (1985), State v. Chandler (2018)
32 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 State v. Boyd · State v. Jones · State v. Harden · State v. Keehn · State v. Hamilton
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘[T]he trial judge ... is bound to exercise extreme care to prevent giving to the jury the impression that he is biased against the defendant or that he does not consider the witness or the defendant worthy of belief, and he should not, by the form, manner, or extent of his questioning and remarks, indicate to the jury his opinion as to the defendant’s guilt.’ ””
6 later decisions 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.