Boyle v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
93 F.3d 180 · 1996
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Nobles v. Johnson (1997), Moore v. Johnson (1999)
19 federal appellate · 3 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 · Kyles v. Whitley · Barclay v. Florida · Woodcock v. Chemical Bank
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all the evidence that [the applicant] maintain[ed] should have been presented at the punishment phase of his capital murder trial had a double-edged quality.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence of his mental illness, violent family background, economic deprivation, voluntary intoxication, drug and alcohol addictions, and testimony as to his many positive traits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“failed to present significant mitigating evidence that was either known to his counsel or should have been known to his counsel”
2 later decisions 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.