Boyde v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably King v. State (1997), Livingston v. State (1987)
93 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 Hopkins v. State · White v. State · Butler v. State · Bray v. State · Stein 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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This general misunderstanding by the public serves to contribute to the prejudicial effect of an argument by a prosecutor which strikes at a member of the bar for representing a person accused of crime.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hughes v. State · Wilson v. State“You will never find me defending criminals in this or any other county. You will never find me accepting stolen money, stolen merchandise as a fee. You will never find me standing up here and trying to get a murder.... Id, at 591.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Borgen 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.