Boston v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2018
14 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 Rubio v. State · Dowden v. State · Moon v. State · Banks v. State · Zachery v. State
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.
“(1) a person; (2) with specific intent to commit an offense; (3) does an act amounting to more than mere preparation; (4) that tends but fails to effect the commission of the offense intended.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Matter of AB · In re A.B.“The intercourse is without the other person’s consent if he compels the other person to submit or participate by force that overcomes such earnest resistance as might reasonably be expected in the circumstances or he compels the other person to submit or participate by any threat that would prevent resistance by a person of ordinary resolution, (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Huff v. State“How else is a threat usually communicated unless “by actions, words or deeds?” The 1975 insertion of the phrase appears to be more for purposes of clarification than of substance, specifying what we all know: that a threat may be made by means other than vocally.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cavazos 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.