State v. Burnett’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably State v. Durham (1967), State v. Anderson (1964)
70 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 State v. Reese · State v. Adams · State v. Bradley · State v. Nasello · State v. Kenyon
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is further established that in the absence of other evidence from which the jury can infer the elements, deliberation and premeditation, these and other constituent elements of murder in the first degree can be inferred from proof that the homicide was committed in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of robbery. In the case of State v. Bradley, supra, 234 S.W.2d 556, 558 (1) the court said: ‘* * * the proof that the homicide was committed in the perpetration of robbery was tantamount to proof of the constituent elements of the crime of murder in the first degree.’ And see State v. Cole, 354 Mo. 181 , 188 S.W.2d 43 , 189 S.W.2d 541 ; State v. Meadows, supra [ 330 Mo. 1020 ], 51 S.W.2d 1033, 1037 (11) ; State v. Reese, 364 Mo. 1221 , 274 S.W.2d 304, 308 (4).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Engberg““Every murder which shall be committed by means of poison, or lying in wait, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate and premeditated killing, and every homicide which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery, burglary or mayhem, shall be deemed murder in the first degree.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Engberg“It was immaterial that the shot may have been fired unintentionally or by accident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCoy 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.