United States v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
620 F.2d 129 · 1980
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Guster (1981), United States v. Sawyers (1990)
20 federal appellate · 7 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. § 1705 · 18 U.S.C. § 3500
Relies on Griffin v. California · Berger v. United States · Weatherford v. Bursey · Tate v. United States · United States v. Leon
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To justify a continuance for the purpose of locating a witness, the moving party must show that the witness would have given substantial favorable evidence and that he was available and willing to testify.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“need be given only where there is a danger of misidentification due to lack of corroborative evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]dentification instructions are within the discretion of the trial court,”
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.