Boyd v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Taboada v. Daly Seven, Inc. (2006), Vaughn, Inc. v. Beck (2001)
2 federal appellate · 59 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 Hannabass v. Ryan · American Airlines, Inc. v. Battle · Bell v. Commonwealth · Strother v. Lynchburg Trust & Savings Bank · City of Newport News v. Commonwealth
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When an enactment does not encompass the entire subject covered by the common law, it abrogates the common-law rule only to the extent that its terms are directly and irreconcilably opposed to the rule.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Consequently, construing the enactment and the statutory term "thereafter," we hold that the statute bars conviction for conspiracy in a subsequent trial after an earlier conviction for the substantive offense. The statute does not prohibit, however, conviction of both the completed substantive offense and the underlying conspiracy, provided the convictions occurred ... in a single trial .... Boyd , at p. 351.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In any case where a defendant has been tried and convicted of an act he has also conspired to commit, such defendant shall be subject to conviction only for the completed substantive offense and not thereafter be convicted for the underlying conspiracy.”
1 later decision 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.