Burris v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1999
3 federal appellate · 13 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 Cavanaugh v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Mosser · Jones & Overton v. Commonwealth · Hawkins v. Comlth. · Bynum v. Commonwealth
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the accused is indicted for murder, it is proper to submit also questions of guilt of lesser degrees of homicide committed under any circumstances or provocation of which there is evidence. Thus, under an indictment for murder it is proper, where the evidence warrants, to authorize a finding of guilt of voluntary manslaughter committed in sudden affray or in sudden heat of passion or by the reckless handling of a deadly weapon, as well as to submit issues of involuntary manslaughter under any of the recognized causes or conditions. Hawkins v. Commonwealth, 142 Ky. 188 , 133 S. W. 1151 ; Jones v. Commonwealth, 200 Ky. 65 , 252 S. W. 130 . But where the. indictment is for voluntary manslaughter, charged to have been committed under a particular condition or specific circumstances, the evidence and the instructions must be confined to the allegations or charges.” The Burris case is controlling here.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fox v. Commonwealth
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.