557 So. 2d 1178 - Boyd v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 2013
17 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
Relies on 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State · 459 So. 2d 793 - Fairchild v. State · 478 So. 2d 1017 - Harper v. State · Mease v. State · Ruffin v. State
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a lesser included offense instruction must be granted where a reasonable juror could not on the evidence exclude the lesser-included offense beyond a reasonable doubt.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Thorson v. State · Taylor v. State“for some unknown reason, our competent and able trial judges continue to refuse instructions on lesser included offenses when the evidence warrants them.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[An] instruction should be granted unless the trial judge — and ultimately this Court — can say, taking all the evidence in the light most favorable to the accused and considering all reasonable inferences which may be drawn in favor of the accused from the evidence, that no reasonable jury could find the defendant guilty of the lesser included offense (and conversely not guilty of at least one essential element of the principal charge).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Harris v. State · Williams v. State
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.