Boyd v. Driver’s Empirical Analysis
579 F.3d 513 · 2009
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2025
5 federal appellate · 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915A · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Estelle v. Gamble · Correction Officer Porters v. Ronald Nussle · Vanderbrook v. Unitrin Preferred Insurance · Geiger v. Jowers
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, Boyd’s handwritten pro se complaint includes allegations supporting a direct due process claim. Boyd claims that prison employees gave perjured testimony at his criminal trial and destroyed and tampered with video evidence of the alleged assaults. While a malicious prosecution claim does not inevitably entail constitutional deprivation, the government’s “manufacturing of evidence and knowing use of that evidence along with perjured testimony to obtain a wrongful conviction deprives a defendant of his long recognized right to a fair trial secured by the Due Process Clause.” The allegations in Boyd’s complaint give rise to claims of direct constitutional deprivation that support a Bivens action. We express no view on the validity of any of Boyd’s claims, on the accuracy of his factual allegations, or on what decisions the district court should make on remand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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