Boswell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 126 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently August 2003 · most notably 414 So. 2d 998 - Dickerson v. State (1982), 385 So. 2d 1005 - Ex Parte Collins (1980)
2 federal appellate · 126 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 Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · McClain v. United States · 49 Ill. 2d 338 - The People v. McCabe · Ballentyne v. Wickersham · Aldridge v. State
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[E]ntrapment is not available as a defense to a person who has the intent and design to commit a criminal offense and who in fact does commit the essential acts constituting it, merely because an officer of the law, in his effort to secure evidence against such person, affords him an opportunity to commit the criminal act. . . ."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Each law shall contain but one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title. . . ."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“" 'The "subject" to be contained in a bill under section [45] of the Constitution, which provides that "[Each law] shall contain [but] one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title," may be as broad and comprehensive as the legislature may choose to make it. It may include innumerable minor subjects, provided all these minor subjects are capable of being so combined as to form only one grand and comprehensive subject; and if the title of the bill, containing this grand and comprehensive subject, is also comprehensive enough to include all these minor subjects as one subject, the bill and all parts thereof will be valid.' "”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Springer
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.