Burks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 1995 · most notably Commonwealth v. Wilbur (1967), Batchelor v. State (1964)
25 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 Williams v. Standard Oil Co. · Alton Co v. United States · 5 Smith & H. 400 - O'Brien v. State · Thompson v. Carson · O'Neil 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the Burks case, since the defendant took the stand and admitted his ownership of the seized property, he waived objection to the search warrant.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““As this offense was charged, any small merchant in the State who had for sale a deck of cards, would be subject to a term in jail; and any citizen or householder who had in his possession and home a pair of dice for a nursery or parlor game, would be subject to like punishment. In our view, this was not the result intended by the Legislature, and the legislative purpose was not the absolute prohibition of the keeping or possession of these devices, but the suppression of gambling. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harris 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.