Boyd v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1982 · most notably Fein v. Selective Serv. System Local Bd. No. 7 of Yonkers (1972), Ralpho v. Bell (1977)
39 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 50 U.S.C. § 3806 · 50 U.S.C. § 3809
Relies on Estep v. United States · Witmer v. United States · Healy Nh v. Ratta · Falbovs v. United States · Kurtz v. Moffitt
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This is not the nineteenth century where property rights were valued over human rights. If a man can sue in federal court on the allegation that the government is injuring his property, he certainly must be allowed to sue on the allegation that the government is oppressing him personally. Although it might be said that human rights are incapable of valuation and hence valueless, it is better to view them as incapable of valuation but only because they are of infinite value. The latter view is, in my humble opinion, the only view compatible with the commitment of our nation to a belief in the dignity of man and the inherent worth of a free individual in a free society.”
2 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.