Ex Parte Burns’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 1987 · most notably Taylor v. State of Alabama (1948), 366 So. 2d 336 - Summers v. State (1978)
24 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 Mooney v. Holohan · Pyle v. State of Kansas · Hysler v. State of Florida · Johnson v. Williams · Dyer 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The charges here are serious and should be specific. There should be nothing which in ’any- way smacks of evasion or generality. The petition should have named the officers alleged to be guilty or should have given a valid excuse for not giving their names.” Ex parte Burns, 247 Ala. 98, 100 , 22 So.2d 517, 519 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Williams“Those experienced in the administration of criminal law well know the untrustworthy character of recanting testimony.”
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.