Boyle v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably Shields v. State (1897), Boyle v. State (1886)
33 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. Sanchez · Dukes v. State · Ketchum v. Stout · State v. Patterson · Fahnestock 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Question. What reason, if any, had the man you have so identified, for shooting you ? Ans. Not any that I know of; he said he would shoot my damned heart out.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyle v. State
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.