People v. Boyer’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2020
3 federal appellate · 9 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 People v. Good · People v. Zeilinger · People v. Fahselt · People v. Davis · People v. Crossman
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... we have clearly held in the past and here reaffirm that a sexual relationship between a lawyer and client during the course of the professional relationship is inherently and insidiously harmful. The relationship can undermine the lawyer's integrity and judgment and dishonor the client's trust.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Easley · People v. Riddle“(i)mental disability and chemical dependency [may be considered as a mitigating factor] when: (1) there is medical evidence that the respondent is affected by a chemical dependency or mental disability; (2) the chemical dependency or mental disability caused the misconduct; (3) the respondent’s recovery from the chemical dependency or mental disability is demonstrated by a meaningful and sustained period of successful rehabilitation; and (4) the recovery arrested the misconduct and recurrence of that misconduct is unlikely.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Madrid
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.