State v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Armstrong v. State (1999), Henricksen v. State (2004)
2 district · 32 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 Pennsylvania v. Ritchie · Laird v. Tatum · Montana Human Rights Division v. City of Billings · Missoulian v. Board of Regents of Higher Education · Great Falls Tribune Co. v. Cascade County Sheriff
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When discovery of documents such as personnel records are at issue, privacy rights are undoubtedly at stake. Montana adheres to one of the most stringent protection of its citizens’ right to privacy in the country. Mont. Const. Art. II, Sec. 10. Montana’s treatment of privacy rights is more strict than that offered by the Federal Constitution. Montana Human Rights Division v. City of Billings (1982), 199 Mont. 434, 439 , 649 P.2d 1283, 1286 . It is against this constitutional backdrop that we view the case at bar.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nelson“1) Whether the person involved had a subjective or actual expectation of privacy; and, 2) Whether society is willing to recognize that expectation as reasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nelson
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.