Burger v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably State v. McClanahan (1993), Magar v. State (1992)
45 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 Davis v. State · Daniels v. State · 134 Ga. App. 53 - Chambers v. State · Campbell v. State · Reeves 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ny idea that a spouse is ever justified in taking the life of anotheradulterous spouse or illicit loverto prevent adultery is uncivilized. This is murder; and henceforth, nothing more appearing, an instruction on justifiable homicide may not be given”
2 later decisions 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.