State v. Burroughs’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably 437 F. Supp. 269 - Laaman v. Helgemoe (1977), Silva v. Botsch (1980)
2 district · 38 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 Ex parte United States · State v. Douglas · Commonwealth Ex Rel. McGinnis v. Ashe · Plymouth School District v. State Board of Education · State v. Valrand
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““demonstrate^] a continuing intent by the legislature to provide the sentencing judge with options to adapt his sentence to a particular individual in the manner best suited to accomplish the constitutional objectives of punishment, rehabilitation and deterrence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gibbons“well-established discretionary authority to suspend”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.