United States v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
53 F.3d 631 · 1995
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Queen (1997), United States v. Tan (2001)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on County of Los Angeles v. Chavez-Salido · Kentucky v. Indiana · Mitan v. United States · Murphy v. Sullivan · Mmahat v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
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.
“clearly probative of the close nature of their relationship,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Such a foundation, typically established through cross examination of the witness whose statement the defendant is attempting to obtain, requires the defendant to specify with reasonable particularity that material which may be a Jencks Act statement exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether, and to what extent, the material sought must be produced are questions of fact to be decided by the district court and will not be overturned unless clearly erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.