Boyer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
55 F.3d 296 · 1995
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably United States v. Moss (2001), United States v. Michael J. Mikalajunas, United States of America v. Craig E. Largent, United States of America v. Michael J. Mikalajunas (1999)
23 federal appellate · 2 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 952 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on Teague v. Lane · Engle v. Isaac · Soberon v. United States · Reed v. Ross · Golden Pacific Bancorp v. United States
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“which are jurisdictional in nature, constitutional in magnitude, or result in a complete miscarriage of justice.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where a constitutional claim is so novel that its legal basis is not reasonably available to counsel, a defendant has cause for his failure to raise the claim in accordance with applicable ... procedures.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mains v. Hall“a longstanding and widespread practice to which [the Supreme Court] has not spoken, but which a near-unanimous body of lower court authority has expressly approved.”
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.