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← 299 GA 813 - Burney v. State

Burney v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

39
cited by 39 later decisions
1
states following
September 2022
most recently cited

39 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Vega v. State · Hanifa v. State · Long 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “if [he] personally waives it in court; if counsel waives it at the defendant's express direction; if counsel waives it in open court while the defendant is present; or if counsel waives it and the defendant subsequently acquiesces in the waiver. [Cit.]”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Acquiescence, which is a tacit consent to acts or conditions, may occur when counsel makes no objection and a defendant remains silent after he or she is made aware of the proceedings occurring in his or her absence.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “must show that his counsel's performance was professionally deficient and that, but for the deficiency, there is a reasonable probability that the outcome of the trial would have been more favorable to him.”
    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.