Boyd v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Boyd v. Ward (1999), Bland v. Sirmons (2006)
5 federal appellate · 41 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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · Gregg v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Eddings v. Oklahoma
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“he had panicked.... That ... Officer Riggs approached him, and he turned around, and he said he just blacked out. Blacked twice. And he just, you know, the gun went off and another shot went off, and he turned and rah.... [He panicked because] there had been a robbery and ... he had just recently gotten out of jail for some problem that he had had.... And that he was afraid of being arrested.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Boyd v. Ward · Boyd v. Gibson“A design to effect death [i.e., premeditation] is inferred from the fact of killing, unless the circumstances raise a reasonable doubt whether such design existed. 21 O.S.1991, § 702. Premeditation sufficient to constitute murder may be formed in an instant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(tlhe trial court is to instruct the jury on every degree of homicide which the evidence in any reasonable view suggests.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bland v. State · Hogan v. Gibson
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.