Burke v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3182
Relies on Roberts v. Reilly · Christopher Strassheim v. Milton Daily · Munsey v. Clough · Arthur Appleyard v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · American Tobacco Co. v. Green
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e think it plain that the criminal need not do within the State every act necessary to complete the crime. If he does there an overt act which is and is intended to be a material step toward accomplishing the crime, and then absents himself from the State and does the rest elsewhere, he becomes a fugitive from justice when the crime is complete....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kerr v. Watson
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.