Robert Victor Boyer v. Ernest S. Patton’s Empirical Analysis
579 F.2d 284 · 1978
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2012 · most notably Reed v. Ross (1984), Osborn v. Shillinger (1988)
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. Zerbst · Wainwright v. Sykes · Fay v. Noia · Doyle v. Ohio
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“demand the finding that (the defendant) was prejudiced as a matter of law”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although we believe that a conscientious attorney would have been aware of the gestating law in this area, we agree that [one authority’s] prescription of “knowledge which normally prevails at the time and place” does not necessarily place upon an attorney practicing in Pennsylvania in 1973 a strict duty to know what that law would become in its fruition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Davis“exercise of the customary skill and knowledge which normally prevails at the time and place”); Marzullo v. Maryland, 561 F.2d 540, 543 (4th Cir. 1977) (”
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.