Boggs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Leonard v. State (2001), Rogers v. State (1985)
48 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 Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · United States v. Agurs · Schaumberg v. State · Sanders v. State · Wallace v. State
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not sufficient that the showing disclose merely a hoped-for conclusion from examination of the destroyed evidence . . [or] that exarnination of the evidence would be helpful in preparing [a] defense.”
3 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.