Boyd v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
661 F.2d 388 · 1981
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Leatherwood v. State (1985), 863 So. 2d 836 - Byrom v. State (2003)
36 federal appellate · 6 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 Page v. Work · MacKenna v. Ellis · Herko v. United States · Washington v. Watkins · United States v. Decoster
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]omplaints of uncalled witnesses are not favored, because the presentation of testimonial evidence is a matter of trial strategy and because allegations of what a witness would have testified are largely speculative.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not errorless counsel, and not counsel judged ineffective by hindsight, but counsel reasonably likely to render and rendering reasonably effective assistance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“bears the burden of demonstrating both an identifiable lapse on the part of his trial counsel and some actual, adverse impact upon the fairness of his trial resulting from that lapse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moreno v. Wj Estelle
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.