United States v. Boyce’s Empirical Analysis
797 F.2d 691 · 1986
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably United States v. O'Connell (1988), United States v. Kragness (1987)
24 federal appellate · 11 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 Ohio v. Roberts · United States v. Matlock · United States v. Raddatz · McCray v. State of Illinois · Cooper v. State of California
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the right of confrontation does not apply to the same extent at pretrial suppression hearings as it does at trial”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) Questions of admissibility generally. Preliminary questions concerning the qualification of a person to be a witness, the existence of a privilege, or the admissibility of evidence shall be determined by the court, subject to the provisions of subdivision (b). In making its determination it is not bound by the rules of evidence except those with respect to privileges.”
1 later decision 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.