Sheriff v. Burcham’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2024
17 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 Mata v. State · Kinsey v. Sheriff, Washoe County · Sheriff, Clark County v. Luqman · Sheriff v. Hodes · Williams 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Additionally, statutory construction should always avoid an absurd result.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“determine whether all of the evidence received at the preliminary hearing ... establishes probable cause to believe that an offense has been committed and that the accused committed it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. White“The finding of probable cause may be based on slight, even marginal evidence,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. White
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.