State v. Burrell’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably State v. Pioletti (1990), State v. Trudell (1988)
26 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 Hickert v. Wright · State v. Green · Mortimer v. Evans · State v. Zimmerman & Schmidt · State v. Jones
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Makin held that when the defendant is' responsible for an unintentional killing in an automobile accident, he may be guilty of involuntary manslaughter if his conduct is shown to be grossly negligent or wanton. We specifically found that the vehicular homicide statute was not intended to supersede the involuntary manslaughter statute for killings resulting from automobile accidents. “Accordingly, we find ‘cases of this nature’ can be appropriately charged as involuntary manslaughter provided there is at least some evidence that the defendant acted wantonly.” 237 Kan. at .307.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Wanton conduct involves a realization of the imminence of danger to the person of another and a reckless disregard or complete indifference and unconcern for the probable consequences of such conduct.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Adams“The existence of wantonness is a question of fact for the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.