Burton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Gleason v. State (2002), Wilks v. State (2002)
54 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 Kotteakos v. United States · United States v. Young · Vaughn v. State · Stephens v. State · Sorenson 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“determine whether the trial court could reasonably conclude as it did and whether any facet of its ruling was arbitrary or capricious.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ford v. State · Wilkening v. State“a substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“In reviewing a claim of prosecutorial misconduct in closing argument, the court looks at the entire record to determine whether the defendant's case was so prejudiced by the improper comments as to result in the denial of a fair trial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Harris v. State · Butz 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.