Boyde v. California’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
933 federal appellate · 72 district · 857 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,719 later decisions (74 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2025 · most notably Williams v. Taylor (2000), Estelle v. McGuire (1991)
933 federal appellate · 72 district · 857 state decisions — followed in 40 states
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 · Chapman v. State of California · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · United States v. Bagley · Santosky v. Kramer
Cited together with Strickland v. Washington · Estelle v. McGuire · Lockett v. Ohio · Williams v. Taylor · Eddings v. Oklahoma
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 2,719 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury has applied the challenged instruction in a way that prevents the consideration of constitutionally relevant evidence.”
149 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“reasonable likelihood that the jury ... applied the ... instruction in a way that prevent[ed] the consideration of constitutionally relevant evidence.”
50 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Smith · Gall v. Parker“are not to be judged as having the same force as an instruction from the court.”
35 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.