William E. Boyd v. Henry E. Cowan, Warden’s Empirical Analysis
519 F.2d 182 · 1975
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2007
6 federal appellate ·
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 Anders v. California · Boykin v. Alabama · Johnson v. Zerbst · Douglas v. People of State of California · Carnley v. Cochran
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this circuit we have held that failure of retained counsel to perfect an appeal when the facts of the case imposed a duty on him to do so could constitute denial of the constitutional right to counsel for appeal. Woodall v. Neil, 444 F.2d 92 (6th Cir.1971). See also Goodwin v. Cardwell, 432 F.2d 521 (6th Cir.1970).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hollin v. Sowders
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.