Boothe v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Leday v. State (1998), Bodde v. State (1978)
42 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
Relies on Richardson v. State · Satery v. State · 163 Tex. Crim. 453 - Alcala v. State · Forderson 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would be an exercise in futility to reverse such a case for insufficient evidence [at the guilt stage of trial] where the testimony of the appellant [judicial confession at penalty stage of trial] could be used against him on a retrial.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Daughtrey v. State · Leday v. State
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.