State v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2016 · most notably Young v. United States Ex Rel. Vuitton Et Fils S. A. (1987), 48 Ala. App. 613 - Hannon v. State (1972)
30 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 McGee v. International Life Insurance · State v. Laster · State v. Howard · State v. Jones · Harris v. Bates Ex Rel. Curry
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We shall not attempt to weigh or measure the actual prejudice in a case of this kind, and we do not consider a more specific showing of prejudice to be necessary. The acts were such as to infringe upon the generally recognized concept of proper conduct of prosecuting officials. Specifically, the acts constituted a violation of Rule 4.06 prohibiting the representation of conflicting interests.” (Emphasis supplied)”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * Evidence of the whereabouts of a defendant after the alleged commission of a crime is generally admissible. The defendant in such cases has the right to refute any incriminating circumstances that may be shown. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Campbell“We might well hold that the conduct of the trial in the manner here complained of constituted a deprivation of due process.”
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.