Commonwealth v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably 120 Wash. 2d 156 - State v. Coria (1992), State v. Thurman (1993)
86 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 Wrenn v. Weinberger · Kemp v. Potts · United States v. Holland · Selected Risks Insurance v. Dean · United States v. Falu
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“upon its own motion at any time, in any case in which a majority of the Court determines it is appropriate to do so. The Court sitting en banc shall consider and decide the case and may overrule any previous decision by any panel or of the full Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“As used in Code § 17-116.02(C), acting independently merely means that each panel must decide on its own the cases it hears, not that it is free from traditional rules of decision, such as stare decisis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“when drug transactions take place within 1,000 feet of a school”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fullwood v. Com.
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.