Burrows v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably State v. Atwood (1992), Sullivan v. State of Arizona (1936)
50 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 People v. Suesser · People v. Loper · State v. Castelli · People v. Miller · 38 Tex. Crim. 681 - Kugadt v. State
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he purpose of the Arizona juvenile law is not to attempt to establish an arbitrary age below which the child is presumed to be ignorant of the consequences of his acts, but rather to provide a special method of treatment for minors under the age of eighteen who have violated the criminal law____”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gammons v. Berlat“[W]e are of the opinion that [involuntary] intoxication must be sufficient to affect the reason of a defendant to the extent that he does not understand and appreciate the nature and consequences of his act, or, as is commonly said, that he does not know right from wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McKeon
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.