State v. Burbine’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2015 · most notably Moran v. Burbine (1986), State v. Stephenson (1994)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. Zerbst · Gideon v. Wainwright · Edwards v. Arizona · Escobedo v. Illinois
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At approximately 8:15 p.m., Ms. Mun-son called the Cranston police station and asked that her call be transferred to the detective division. A male voice responded with the word “Detectives.” Ms. Munson identified herself and asked if Brian Burbine was being held; the person responded affirmatively. Ms. Mun-son explained to the person that Burbine was represented by attorney Casparian who was not available; she further stated that she would act as Burbine’s legal counsel in the event that the police intended to place him in a lineup or question him. The unidentified person told Ms. Munson that the police would not be questioning Burbine or putting him in a lineup and that they were through with him for the night. Ms. Munson was not informed that the Providence police were at the Cranston police station or that Burbine was a suspect in Mary’s murder.” State v. Burbine, 451 A.2d at 23-24 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Moran v. Burbine · Burbine v. Moran“It hardly seems conceivable that the additional information that an attorney whom he did not know had called the police station would have added significantly to the quantum of information necessary for the accused to make an informed decision as to waiver.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[A]lthough a suspect has previously been informed of his abstract right to counsel and has waived that right, he must be informed when his counsel actually seeks to advise him and must knowingly and intelligently reject such opportunity before subsequent statements may be taken and used against him. State v. Haynes, 288 Or. at 70, 602 P.2d at 273.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.