Burton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
1 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently December 1987 · most notably 64 Cal. 2d 159 - Ballard v. Superior Court of San Diego County (1966), Wedmore v. State (1957)
1 district · 57 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 Watts v. Indiana · People v. Scott · The People v. Kazmierczyk · People v. Freeman · Hutchins 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"No judge should ever let a sex-offense charge go to the jury unless the female complainant's social history and mental makeup have been examined and testified to by a qualified physician."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Yessen v. State · Binder v. State““With such a record before us we fail to find any evidence that would convince us beyond a reasonable doubt of the appellant’s guilt. Many times this court has laid down the test for reasonable doubt by requiring that the facts must have such a convincing force that the jurors [or court as the finder of fact] would be willing to act upon them in matters of the highest importance, affecting their dearest interests, under circumstances where there would be no compulsion to act at all. Guilt is not established by mere opportunity to commit crime, nor can a conviction be sustained on speculation or conjecture. If the trier of the facts in this case had properly applied the test for determining proof beyond a reasonable doubt, he could not properly have found the appellant guilty as charged. For these reasons we believe the finding of the trial court was not sustained by sufficient evidence.” Burton v. State, supra, 232 Ind. at 255 , 111 N. E. 2d at 896 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bryant v. State · Wedmore v. State“) is extremely heavy sometimes twenty years; in one State, life imprisonment! Thus the erotic imagination of an abnormal child of attractive appearance may send an innocent man to the penitentiary for life. The warnings of the psychiatric profession, supported as they are by thousands of observed cases, should be heeded by our profession.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Yessen v. State · Wedmore 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.