State v. Burnham’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2000
16 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Patterson v. New York · Fisher v. United States · Durham v. United States
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A person acts intentionally with respect to a result of his conduct when it is his conscious object to cause such a result.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mishne · State v. Page“This instruction is particularly important in the unitary trial [on pleas both of not guilty and of not guilty by reason of insanity]. Without it, the instructions on the affirmative defense of insanity may mislead the jury as to the prosecution’s burden of proof on “culpable state of mind” when the evidence tending to negate “culpable state of mind” is the same evidence which goes to establish the “insanity defense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Likay“In a prosecution for a crime which may be committed intentionally, knowingly or recklessly, where such culpable state of mind is a necessary element, the existence of a reasonable doubt as to such state of mind may be established by evidence of an abnormal condition of mind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Likay
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.