Burford v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Great Coastal Express, Inc. v. Ellington (1985), Zirkle v. Commonwealth (1949)
3 federal appellate · 56 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 Allen v. Commonwealth · Thomas Gemmell, Inc. v. Svea Fire & Life Insurance · Malouf v. City of Roanoke · Bell v. Commonwealth · Rosser v. Commonwealth
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the trial of all criminal cases, whether the same be felony or misdemeanor cases, the court may, in its discretion, exclude from the trial any or all persons whose presence is not deemed necessary.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“That section remains basically the same today. A person convicted of a felony or perjury shall not be incompetent to testify, but the fact of conviction may be shown in evidence to affect his credit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the number of specific acts of violence of the ... victim which might be introduced [is] a matter within the sound discretion of the trial court.”
1 later decision 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.