State v. Burton’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Awadelkariem v. State (1998), Goene v. State (1991)
29 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 267 So. 2d 8 - Anderson v. State · Alabama Hotel Co. v. J. L. Mott Iron Works · 121 So. 2d 648 - Ramagli Realty Co. v. Craver
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.
“... when a motion for new trial is granted or denied `absent fraud or clerical error' ... `the court is without authority to entertain or consider a petition for re-hearing addressed to such an order'.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“may be vacated, modified, opened or otherwise acted upon at any time. This is an inherent power of courts of record, and one essential to insure the true administration of justice and the orderly function of the judicial process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goene 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.