Boyd v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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33 state decisions

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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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * We again call attention to Fay v. New York, 332 U.S. 261, 284 , 67 S.Ct. 1613, 1626 , 91 L.Ed. 2043 (as we did in Lofton, 489 P.2d at 1171-1172 ), where it was said, ‘It is fundamental in questioning the composition of a jury that a mere showing that a class was not represented in a particular jury is not enough; there must be a clear showing that its absence was caused by discrimination * * *.” We adhere to our view expressed in Simms v. State, supra, 492 P.2d at 520 (n. 2), where we indicated that the simplest method by which any defendant could challenge a jury as being selected by systematic and intentional exclusion of any group of persons would be to present the names of various persons who were entitled to be on the jury list and whose names were not contained thereon. This would impose no great burden and would permit the one claiming to be denied a fair trial a workable method for meeting the above-mentioned prerequisite of Fay.” 528 P.2d at 289-290 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dorador v. State

2. ““In the overall contention that there was insufficient legally competent evidence to convict the defendant of the charges against her, emphasis is placed upon the fact that there was a disparity in the evidence regarding her height and weight. An investigator, Ramirez, placed her at 5 feet 6 inches, 105 pounds, whereas she was actually much taller and heavier. These variations, which raise the question of her identity and go to the credibility and weight of Ramirez’s testimony, were matters solely within the province of the triers of fact, as was the color of her hair.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dreyer v. State

3. “"* * * [W]here the charge follows the statutory language and such language contains all that is essential to constitute the crime, the indictment is sufficient. * * *" Boyd v. State, Wyo., 528 P.2d 287, 289 (1974), cert. denied 423 U.S. 871 , 96 S.Ct. 137 , 46 L.Ed.2d 102 (1975).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Stewart v. State