Burd v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
4
states following
September 1969
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Briggs v. Commonwealth · 63 F. Supp. 220 - Deming v. Turner · Fleenor v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Cambron · Commonwealth v. Radford
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““3. Pleadings and Proceedings. No pleadings shall be required on the part of the Commonwealth, but the summons shall be served, and all subsequent proceedings shall be the same as in an ordinary civil action.””
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.