Boyd v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
June 2017
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State · 459 So. 2d 793 - Fairchild v. State · 684 So. 2d 625 - Hunter v. State · 790 So. 2d 773 - Conley v. State · 913 So. 2d 198 - Walker v. State
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The [c]ourt instructs the [j]ury that if you unanimously find that the State has failed to prove all the elements of the crime of capital murder, you may then proceed in your deliberations to consider the lesser charge of murder. However, it is your duty to accept the law given to you by the [e]ourt; and if the facts and the law warrant a conviction of the crime of capital murder, then it is your duty to make such a finding, and not be influenced by your power to find a lesser offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that the trial court erred in failing to instruct the jury that, in an aggravated-assault prosecution, [the jury] must find that the instrument used by the defendant was a deadly weapon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“with a deadly weapon or other means likely to produce death or serious bodily harm[,]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.