State v. Burke’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
March 2025
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Coates v. City of Cincinnati · City of Chicago v. Morales · Colten v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · State v. Gendron · State v. Takacs
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That there will be marginal cases in which it is difficult to determine the side of the line on which a particular fact situation falls is no sufficient reason to hold the language too ambiguous to define a criminal offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Francisco“It requires only that the language of a statute convey a definite warning of the proscribed conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Due process does not require, however, that a statute be drafted with absolute precision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.