People v. Burch’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently October 1982 · most notably 59 Cal. 2d 713 - People v. Haven (1963), 28 Cal. 3d 238 - Owens v. Superior Court (1980)
44 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 45 Cal. 2d 776 - People v. Gorg · 50 Cal. 2d 383 - People v. Wein · 55 Cal. 2d 88 - People v. Robillard · People v. Roberts · Powell v. Superior Court
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Declarations and statements made by the defendant are original evidence against him, and the rules as to the impeachment of witnesses do not apply to the proof thereof, even if he takes the stand in his own defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Ashford“anomalous ... that a delay to which he contributed, ... defeated his constitutional and statutory right to a speedy trial.”
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.