Commonwealth v. Burke’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Kozec (1987), Commonwealth v. Bradshaw (1982)
85 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 Barker v. Wingo · Bates v. State Bar · Commonwealth v. Borodine · Commonwealth v. Graziano · Commonwealth v. Richards
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“invite an inference from the exercise of a party's right to have evidence excluded.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““The Commonwealth does not deny the impropriety of these remarks. Instead, it argues that (1) the errors were not adequately preserved for appellate review; (2) the prosecution was merely attempting to ‘fight fire with fire’; (3) the prejudicial effect of these errors was diminished substantially by the judge’s curative instructions; and (4) the evidence of guilt was overwhelming; therefore, the errors were harmless.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“You have ... to decide whether or not someone like Mr. Burke is going to go out in the streets again.”
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.