State v. Boykin’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably State v. Golphin (2000), State v. Barnes (1997)
52 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 First National Bank v. Dickinson · Board of Trade v. Commodity Futures Trading Commission · State v. Fox · State v. Nelson · State v. Brower
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a well settled rule of law in this jurisdiction that the decision whether to try the defendants separately or jointly is ordinarily within the sound discretion of the trial judge and, absent an abuse of that discretion, will not be overturned on appeal. State v. Slade, 291 N.C. 275 , 229 S.E.2d 921 (1976); State v. Brower, 289 N.C. 644 , 224 S.E.2d 551 (1976); State v. Fox, 274 N.C. 277 , 168 S.E.2d 492 (1968).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““expedites the administration of justice, reduces the congestion of trial dockets, conserves judicial time, lessens the burden upon citizens who must sacrifice both time and money to serve upon juries, and avoids the necessity of recalling witnesses who would otherwise be called upon to testify only once.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams“The test is whether the conflict in defendants' respective positions at trial is of such a nature that considering all of the other evidence in the case, defendants were denied a fair trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Marlow
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.