State v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2018
21 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 People v. Gerold · 161 Ind. App. 443 - Branan v. State · State v. Burns · 224 F. Supp. 909 - Humble Oil & Refining Company v. American Oil Company
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We shall not attempt to weigh or measure the actual prejudice in a case of this kind, and we do not consider a more specific showing of prejudice to be necessary. The acts were such as to infringe upon the generally recognized concepts of proper conduct of prosecuting officials. Specifically, the acts constituted a violation of Rule 4.06 prohibiting the representation of conflicting interests. We do not mean to attribute intentional misconduct to [the prosecutor]; but prosecuting officials, like Caesar’s wife, ought to be above suspicion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[Prosecutor’s] employment as an assistant in the Public Defender’s office during part of the time that such office acted as counsel for the defendant followed by his prosecution of tlie defendant in the same case as Assistant Prosecuting Attorney creates an apparent conflict of interest and appearance of impropriety inimical to the proper administration of criminal justice. The trial court erred in overruling defendant’s motion to disqualify the assistant prosecutor _this situation should be scrupulously avoided. Id. at 298 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clampitt“The right to due process and a fair trial include the essential element that there is no unfair advantage to the prosecution by reason of a prior professional relationship between a member of its staff and a criminal defendant concerning the same or closely related matter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.