State v. Burnham’s Empirical Analysis
1844
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1947 · most notably Callan v. Wilson (1888), Andrew Aikens v. State of Wisconsin No 3 Albert Huegin (1904)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 3 Wheel. Cr. Cas. 293 - Commonwealth v. Judd · Commonwealth v. Davis
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“combinations against law or against individuals are always dangerous to the public peace and to public security. To guard against the union of individuals to effect an unlawful design is not easy, and to detect and punish them is often extremely difficult.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Callan v. Wilson
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.