United States v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
55 F.3d 239 · 1995
Citation profile
121 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 190 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably United States v. Gaviria (1997), United States v. O'Keefe (1997)
121 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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. § 3731
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Giglio v. United States · Kyles v. Whitley
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 190 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he gravity of the prosecutors’ misconduct ... may support ... an inference that the prosecutors resorted to improper tactics because they were justifiably fearful that without such tactics the defendants might be acquitted. If the prosecutors did not think their case airtight (and so they tried to bolster it improperly), this is some indication that it toas indeed not airtight.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“has occasion to resolve a pure issue of law, our review of that resolution is plenary.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is a reasonable probability that, had it not been for the improprieties, the defendants would have been acquitted.”
2 later decisions 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.