Boyle v. Landry’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
352 federal appellate · 113 district · 134 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 994 later decisions (52 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2023 · most notably Younger v. Harris (1971), Roe v. Wade (1973)
352 federal appellate · 113 district · 134 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Younger v. Harris · Samuels v. J Mackell Fernandez · 280 F. Supp. 938 - Landry v. Daley · 280 F. Supp. 929 - Landry v. Daley
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 994 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]ot a single one of the [plaintiffs] had ever been prosecuted, charged, or even arrested under the . . . statute . . . . [T]he complaint contains no mention of any specific threat by any [law enforcement] official . . . to arrest or prosecute any . . . of the plaintiffs . . . .”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A court of the United States may not grant an injunction to stay proceedings in a state court except as expressly authorized by act of Congress, or where necessary in aid of its jurisdiction, or to protect or effectuate its judgments.” 28 U.S.C. § 2283 (1965).”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““There is nothing contained in the allegations of the complaint from which one could infer that any one or more of the citizens who brought this suit is in any jeopardy of suffering irreparable injury if the State is left free to prosecute under the intimidation statute in the normal manner. As our holdings today in Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37 , 91 S.Ct. 746 , 27 L.Ed.2d 669 , and Samuels v. Mackell, 401 U.S. 66 , 91 S. Ct. 764 , 27 L.Ed.2d 688 , show, the normal course of state criminal prosecutions cannot be disrupted or blocked on the basis of charges which in the last analysis amount to nothing more than speculation about the future. The policy of a century and a half against interference by the federal courts with state law enforcement is not to be set aside on such flimsy allegations as those relied upon here. “For the reasons set out above and for those set out at greater length today in Younger and Samuels, we reverse.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Wade · Conners v. Riley
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.