Oyler v. Boles’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
943 federal appellate · 205 district · 1,477 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,415 later decisions (51 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Almendarez-Torres v. United States (1998), Bordenkircher v. Hayes (1978)
943 federal appellate · 205 district · 1,477 state decisions — followed in 49 states
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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Williams v. People of State of New York · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · In re Oliver
Cited together with Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Wayte v. United States · Snowden v. Hughes · James Graham v. State of West Virginia
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 3,415 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the conscious exercise of some selectivity in enforcement is not in itself a federal constitutional violation.”
144 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an opportunity to be heard relative to the recidivist charge”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the determination of whether one is an habitual criminal is 'essentially independent' of the determination of guilt on the underlying substantive offense.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.