Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2023
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Compton v. Alton Steamship Co. · Bulala v. Boyd · Boyd
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] threshold condition for granting the relief is that the movant demonstrate that granting that relief will not ... have been a futile gesture, by showing that she has a meritorious defense or claim”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“For the foregoing reasons, we remand the action to the district court with directions to vacate its present judgment and to enter judgment in favor of Veronica Boyd in the sum of $425,000, with interest and costs, and in favor of Helen Boyd in the sum of $425,000, with interest and costs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“we are ... doubtful that they could have had such a dominant impact on the total award.”
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.