The People v. Boneau’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 1974
14 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 Bartholomew v. People · People v. Grove · People v. Fox · People v. Weisman · People v. Osborne
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A ‘variance’, in criminal law, is not now regarded as material unless it is of such a substantial character as to mislead the accused in preparing his defense, or unless it may place him in a second jeopardy for the same offense [citing authorities]. No such variance exists in this case. That the property was stolen from the Stahl store, which was definitely located, is not disputed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Savan
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.