State v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably State v. Silhan (1981), State v. Smith (1977)
40 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Bumper v. North Carolina · United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n · Brewer v. United States · State v. Atkinson
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has long been the law in this State in prosecutions under [ N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-54 ] and its similar predecessors that where the indictment charges the defendant with breaking and entering, proof by the State of either a breaking or an entering is sufficient; and instructions allowing juries to convict on the alternative propositions are proper.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An indictment for burglary may lay the offense with several intents, as with intent to steal and intent to murder ... as by alleging the several intents conjunctively in the same court.”
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.