State v. Boutchee’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 2003
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1503
Relies on United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n · United States v. Harris · United States v. Davis · State v. Logue · Hunt v. United States
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No indictment or information is insufficient, nor can the trial, judgment, or other proceeding thereon be affected, by reason of a defect or imperfection in its form, which does not prejudice the substantial rights of the defendant. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Peck“As long as his words or actions support the inference that he (1) sought to prevent or dissuade a potential witness from attending upon a trial or (2) attempted by threat of force to induce a person to withhold testimony,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Charger“[a]n [indictment] is sufficient if it appraises [sic] the accused of the nature of the accusation against him with reasonable certainty so that he may prepare a defense and be protected from double jeopardy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Peck
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.