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Boyd v. Dutton’s Empirical Analysis

1972

Citation profile

201
cited by 201 later decisions
10
cited 10 times by the Supreme Court
20
states following
April 2022
most recently cited

29 federal appellate · 9 district · 107 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 201 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably Schneckloth v. Bustamonte (1973), Pennsylvania v. Finley (1987)

29 federal appellate · 9 district · 107 state decisions — followed in 20 states

650197219801990200020102020decided

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

reviewedJack Boyd v. S. Lamont Smith, Warden (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Gideon v. Wainwright · Townsend v. Sain · Carnley v. Cochran · Johnson v. Avery

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 201 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the current flood of petitions ... already threatens--because of sheer volume--to submerge meritorious claims and even to produce a judicial insensitivity to”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Brown v. Rn Briscoe
  2. “Waiver will not be `lightly presumed,' and a trial judge must `indulge every reasonable presumption against waiver.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Metcalf v. State
  3. “has an unconditional and absolute constitutional right to a lawyer”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Julius Hairston v. State of Alabama

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.