Burley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2008
19 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 Brady v. State · Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railroad v. Kimmey · Hanley v. Stulman · Colter v. State · Burley 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We recognized an exception to the general rule where the trial court refused even to consider newly discovered evidence relating to a motion for a new trial. Wash., B. & A.R. Co. v. Kimmey, 141 Md. 243 [ 118 A. 648 ]. The instant case comes within the purview of the general rule.”
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.