Burleson v. Saffle’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2021
4 federal appellate · 4 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 Locke 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the operative language of Subsection B [of Section 652] is the use of the vehicle to facilitate the intentional discharge of a weapon in conscious disregard for the safety of any other person or persons”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. BRINK v. STATE
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.