State v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2018
23 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 United States v. Falcone · Carew v. Rutherford · Ballantine v. Cummings · Robinette v. Price · Landen v. States
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is important in considering the case to bear in mind that (1) a conspiracy to commit a crime is a separate, substantive offense from the crime which is the object of the conspiracy; and (2) persons may combine to commit lawful acts [[Image here]]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hatfield“In order to hold defendants criminally liable, it would be necessary to impute to them under the doctrine of respondeat superior actual knowledge of * * * facts known only by their employee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tracy“several persons commit separate acts which form parts of a connected whole, an inference of conspiracy-that there was concert in both planning and execution-is permissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Longo
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.