Boyd v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
45 F.3d 876 · 1994
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2025
10 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Coleman v. Thompson · Michigan v. Long · Allen v. United States · Harris v. Reed · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Allen charge” refers genetically to supplemental jury instructions that urge deadlocked juries to rethink their differences in order to reach a unanimous verdict. Such a charge has also been colloquially referred to as a dynamite or hammer charge. The federal circuit courts commonly give the term”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“rests on an adequate and independent state procedural bar, and does not fairly appear to rest primarily on federal law, we may not review the merits of the federal claim absent a showing of cause and prejudice for the procedural default, or a showing that our failure to review the claim would result in a complete miscarriage of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Corwin v. Johnson“Thus, we review de novo this appeal which challenges . . . the district court's determination that [Johnson's] claim was not barred procedurally. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.