United States v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
696 F.2d 63 · 1982
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2008
10 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Rhode Island v. Innis · Michigan v. Summers · Gilbert v. First National Bank of Jackson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The tipster should state how he received his information--whether he observed the defendant engaging in criminal activity or whether he participated in the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“certainly did not sanction the search and seizure of residents who, at the time of the search, are several blocks from their home”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Daniel Leveto
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.