Boyd v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
271 U.S. 104 · 1926
Citation profile
213 federal appellate · 18 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 411 later decisions (42 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Donnelly v. DeChristoforo (1974), Hamling v. United States (1974)
213 federal appellate · 18 district · 47 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Linder v. United States · Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Earnest · McDermott v. Severe
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 411 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[does] not stand alone, but [is] to be taken with what preceded it and also with what followed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘I am requested to say to you, Gentlemen, that in determining whether or not the defendant in prescribing morphine to his patients was honestly seeking to cure them of the morphine habit, while applying his curative remedies, it is not necessary for the jury to believe that defendant’s treatment would cure the morphine habit, but it is sufficient if defendant honestly believed his remedy was a cure for this disease.’ “ T instruct you that, if this is true, regardless of whether the course of treatment given by this defendant is a cure,, the question is: Was he honestly and in good faith in the course of his professional practice and in an effort to cure disease issuing these prescriptions ?’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)he disputed question was whether the defendant issued the prescriptions in good faith in the course of his professional practice.”
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.