Boles v. Stevenson’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
126 federal appellate · 20 district · 105 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 321 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2007 · most notably Henry v. State of Mississippi (1965), Case v. State of Nebraska (1965)
126 federal appellate · 20 district · 105 state decisions — followed in 22 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedStevenson v. Boles (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Denno · Rogers v. Richmond · 147 W. Va. 211 - State v. Stevenson · State v. Vance
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 321 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But it does not follow that the state is required to order a new trial. As we held in Jackson, supra, where a state defendant has not been given an adequate hearing upon the voluntariness of his confession, he is entitled to a hearing in the state courts under appropriate procedures and standards designed to insure a full and adequate resolution of this issue.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fully adequate to insure a reliable and clear-cut determination of the voluntariness of the confession, including the resolution of disputed facts upon which the voluntariness issue may depend.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Barber · Kinder v. Boles“to allow the State [Texas] a reasonable time to afford Burns a hearing or a new trial, failing which Burns is entitled to his release”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Beto
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.