Burch v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2008 · most notably Barclay v. Florida (1983), Spinkellink v. Wainwright (1978)
2 federal appellate · 42 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 Harrington v. California · Frazier v. Cupp · Lisenba v. People of State of California · Lynumn v. Illinois · Clewis v. Texas
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) The capital felony was committed while the defendant was under the influence of extreme mental or emotional disturbance”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he detective interrogating him stated he would make the decision whether to charge appellant with first or second degree murder and that he wanted to believe appellant had not premeditatedly killed the girl. He also advised the appellant to consider the difference between a capital crime and a seven-to-twenty year sentence in determining whether to confess and explain the circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harris v. State“In order to sustain a sentence of death following a jury recommendation of life, the facts suggesting a sentence of death should be so clear and convincing that virtually no reasonable person could differ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barclay v. Florida
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.