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Burgan v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

39
cited by 39 later decisions
1
states following
December 2023
most recently cited

37 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Barnes v. State (1998), Burgess v. State (1994)

37 state decisions

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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 Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · Doyle v. Ohio · California v. Green · United States v. Henry

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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[P]hotographs which are material and relevant to any issue are admissible even though they may be duplicative and inflame the jury. Goss v. State, 255 Ga. 678 (1) ( 341 SE2d 448 ) (1986) and cits.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Brady ... is not violated when the material in question is available to the defendants during trial, pre-trial disclosure of material not being required.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “An inmate who acts upon the expectation of an unpromised reward does not thereby become an agent for the state.”
    1 later decision 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.