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State v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis

1970

Citation profile

53
cited by 53 later decisions
3
states following
May 2018
most recently cited

53 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Dawkins v. State (1988), State v. Carson (1997)

53 state decisions

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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. Gory · State v. Nicolosi · State v. Decker · State v. Virdure · State v. Young

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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “no case has been found in which the defendant's conviction of illegal possession of narcotics has been sustained where the prosecution has failed to prove, either directly or by inference, that the defendant had knowledge of the presence of the contraband substance.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Drabek · State v. Hayes
  2. “Possession without knowledge of such possession is not possession in the legal sense of that word”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Williams · State v. Drabek
  3. “did knowingly and intentionally have in his possession the prescribed controlled substance. It is not sufficient that it prove only actual or constructive possession, but the test is whether the defendant was aware of the presence and character of the particular substance, and was intentionally and consciously in possession of it.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Williams

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.