State v. Burdette’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably State v. Cherry (2004), State v. McHoney (2001)
89 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 Ohio v. Roberts · Idaho v. Wright · White v. Illinois · Yates v. Aiken · Yates v. Aiken
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a defendant is convicted of one of the triggering offenses, the matter of sentencing becomes the province of the legislature. We have held in the past that the penalty assessed for a particular offense is, except in the rarest of cases, purely a matter of legislative prerogative, and the legislature’s judgment will not be disturbed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Standard“[a] statement describing or explaining an event or condition made while the declarant was perceiving the event or condition, or immediately thereafter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. LaCoste“On appeal from the denial of a directed verdict, this [c]ourt must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Young
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.