Milburn v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 1990 · most notably Tillman v. State (1980), Young v. State (1980)
30 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 Carroll v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Chambers v. Maroney · Caton v. State · Stone 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * We have consistently held that a trial court commits reversible error when it refuses to give a correct instruction defining a lesser included offense and its punishment when there is testimony on which the defendant might be found guilty of the lesser rather than the greater offense. (Citing cases.) * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Glover v. State · Hamilton v. State“* * * If you find that the defendant absconded without paying or offering to pay for such accommodation, or that he surreptitiously removed or attempted to remove his baggage, it is not necessarily conclusive as to the defendant’s intent to defraud, but may be considered by you along with all the other facts and circumstances in the case. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barnes v. State
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.