United States v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
610 F.2d 521 · 1979
Citation profile
97 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2014 · most notably Clark v. United States (1980), United States v. Lewis (1985)
97 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 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 18 U.S.C. § 1952 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Swain v. State of Alabama · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · California v. Civil Aeronautics Board · Schaffer v. United States · Roberts v. Louisiana
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere fact that there is hostility among the defendants, or one defendant may try to save himself at the expense of another is not sufficient grounds to require separate trials.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Severance becomes necessary [only] where the proof is such that a jury could not be expected to compartmentalize the evidence as it relates to separate defendants.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“charged in a conspiracy should be tried together, particularly where proof of the charges against the defendants is based upon the same evidence and acts.”
2 later decisions 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.