Boswell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently October 1998 · most notably Parsons v. State (1886), Boyle v. State (1934)
54 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 Donnell v. Jones · McAllister v. State · State v. Lawrence · Thompson v. State · Flanagan v. . People of the State of N.Y.
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(T)he workings of a diseased mind are so variant, that it is difficult to lay down an absolute rule for the government of all cases. Each case must depend, more or less, on its own particular facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cunningham v. State“(A) reasonable doubt of sanity, raised by all the evidence, does not authorize an acquittal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cunningham v. State“No defense, perhaps, is more easily simulated than this.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cunningham v. State
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.