Boyde v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
404 F.3d 1159 · 2005
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Hovey v. Ayers (2006), Frantz v. Hazey (2008)
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · Slack v. McDaniel · Batson v. Kentucky
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The harm caused by counsel’s failure to investigate and present evidence of abuse was not just that the jury was deprived of relevant information about [petitioner’s] childhood. [Trial] counsel called both [petitioner’s] [father] and stepfather — the alleged abusers — to testify during sentencing. We cannot fault this decision, as a defendant’s parents will often make the most persuasive case to the jury for sparing their son’s life. But the evidence he elicited from the parents suggested — in stark contrast to what counsel’s own investigation had re vealed — that [petitioner] had a normal, non-violent childhood. The jury, left to wonder how [petitioner] learned to commit such violent acts, could not look to his childhood as an explanation — his parents’ testimony and counsel’s deficiency took care of that— but must instead have concluded that he grew violent despite his childhood.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The second step of this process does not demand an explanation that is persuasive, or even plausible. “At this [second] step of the inquiry, the issue is the facial validity of the prosecutor’s explanation. Unless a discriminatory intent is inherent in the prosecutor’s explanation, the reason offered will be deemed race [or gender] neutral.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“absent the errors, there is a reasonable probability that the jury `would have concluded that the balance of aggravating and mitigating circumstances did not warrant death.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Hovey v. Ayers
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.