Boykin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
612 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 614 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Watson v. State (2006), Marin v. State (1993)
612 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 Caminetti v. United States · West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. v. Casey · Public Citizen v. United States Department of Justice · Demarest v. Manspeaker · United States v. Andrus
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 614 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the statute is clear and unambiguous, the Legislature must be understood to mean what it has expressed, and it is not for the courts to add or subtract from such a statute.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the plain language of a statute would lead to absurd results, or if the language is not plain but rather ambiguous, then and only then, out of absolute necessity, is it constitutionally permissible for a court to consider, in arriving at a sensible interpretation, such extra textual factors as executive or administrative interpretations of the statute or legislative history.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Marks v. State · Jaubert v. State“seek to effectuate the 'collective' intent or purpose of the legislators who enacted the legislation.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.