Boltz v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably State v. Davolt (2004), Duvall v. Reynolds (1998)
10 federal appellate · 51 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 Strickland v. Washington · Pate v. Robinson · Ake v. Oklahoma · Jurek v. Texas · Lockhart v. McCree
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not presently prepared to abandon my opinion regarding the validity of the `continuing threat' circumstance, I agree with appellant that more definitive guidance is needed.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Berget v. State · Boyd v. State“"[A]n attorney who makes a strategic choice to channel his investigation into fewer than all plausible lines of defense upon which he bases his strategy are reasonable and his choices on the basis of those assumptions are reasonable ...," An attorney's decision not to interview witnesses and to rely on other sources of information, if made in the exercise of professional judgment, is not ineffective counsel.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Phillips v. State · Gilson v. State“[I]f a defendant's competency at the time of trial can be meaningfully determined at a subsequent time on the basis of credible and competent evidence, then error committed by the district court in failing to hold a hearing at the proper time can be cured.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Grant v. Royal · Clayton 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.