Boutwell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
125 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Allridge v. State (1988), Vernon v. State (1992)
125 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 Albrecht v. State · Williams v. State · Plante v. State · Morgan v. State · Moore 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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Extraneous transactions constituting offenses shown to have been committed by the accused may become admissible upon a showing by the prosecution both that the transaction is relevant to a material issue in the case, and, the relevancy value of the evidence outweighs its inflammatory or prejudicial potential.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Murphy v. State · Crank v. State“a narrow exception for sex offenses to permit admission of similar extraneous sex offenses which occurred between the minor complainant and the accused.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Lopez v. State · Mannie v. State“or context rationale from which they arose. Id. This is because generally, when a defendant denies the alleged sexual act or relationship, or undermines the State's case, then there is a need for this type of evidence to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Silva 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.