United States v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
86 F.3d 719 · 1996
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably United States v. Perez (1997), People v. Bowens (2011)
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Indiana Southern District Court)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Olano · Batson v. Kentucky · Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · Cuyler v. Sullivan
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“plant an error and grow a risk-free trial”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Important social interests allow a judge to block the defense from taking certain action.... It does not follow that by violating these important social interests a defendant can help himself to a new trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“has ultimate authority to make certain fundamental decisions regarding the case, as to whether to plead guilty, waive a jury, testify in his or her own behalf, or take an appeal ... the remaining decisions are in the hands of counsel. It could hardly be otherwise, unless trials are to be indefinitely extended as judges ask the defendant whether each decision (or omission) meets with his pleasure. The process would be worse than cumbersome. It would undermine the defendant’s ability to entrust decisions to a legally trained person.”
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.