United States v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
640 F.3d 657 · 2011
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2119 · 18 U.S.C. § 3 · 18 U.S.C. § 4
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Old Chief v. United States · Jones v. United States · Braverman v. United States · United States v. Abel
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.
“We afford the district court very broad discretion in determining whether the danger of undue prejudice outweighs the probative value of the evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“afford 'wide latitude to a prosecutor during closing argument.'”
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.