Burns v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Duquette · Commonwealth v. Pauley · Commonwealth v. Pyles · Commonwealth v. Lewis · Delaney v. Commonwealth
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in effect, rendered moot any * defects in the underlying proceedings.”
3 later decisions 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.