Boyde v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
421 F.3d 1154 · 2005
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2024
7 federal appellate ·
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 · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden · Silva v. Woodford · Michael Jackson v. Arthur Calderon, Warden · Wallace v. Stewart
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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 passagee.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.