Boyle v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Matthew Armstrong v. State of Arkansas (2020), Starling v. State (2016)
50 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 Grillot v. State · Flowers v. State · Fudge v. State · Harshaw v. State · Brown 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An instruction should only be excluded when there is no rational basis for giving it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Douglas v. State
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.